I'm tackling the mineral enthusiast himself, Taric. I am either going to do a rework of his default skin, or come up with a new one (pending a question I'm awaiting an answer for).
when you zoom in on a viewport with a background image, is there a way to increase the limit when max ask if you wanna go trough with the zoom? default is 16 but id rather have it at like 70-80
Transpose Master to the rescue, it should be included in your default installation http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/zbrush-plugins/transpose-master/
Try this, when you import original weapon to 3dsmax delete everything but the pivot, then attach your weapon to it. Then the default material will change.