Metal/armor textures!

Shinsen

Im working on a next gen character which consist in a human knight with realistic proportions.
I basically need armor, chainmail and leather textures. Im asking here because Im pretty sure everyone of you modeled a knight at some point in your lives And i cant seem to find good texture, all I know is cgtextures and they are average.

thanks in advance

Farfarer

It shouldn't be too hard to work any reference photo of metal or leather into what you want. CGTextures has ample stuff for both of those.

For chainmail, I'd model it out and bake that back to a flat texture.

Valandar

There's also an EXCELLENT Filter Forge filter that makes maille, and as it is Filter Forge, it can also render out matching greyscale bump, Normal Map, Alpha Map, etcetera. Best of all, it can also be set to have missing links, damage, and so on.