That's two brutal critiques. These guys are correct, but I've found that the best tutorial to blow your mind with info is Millenia's weapon creation tutorial. His skill set is obviously much more advanced than yours, gardner, but this is a wonderful tutorial to teach you the workflow of creating of game-ready asset that…
Hey, look at this tutorial. I think it will help you. http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3d-studio-max/how-to-create-a-video-game-dumpster-the-complete-current-gen-workflow/
Thanks for the feedback and links to various reference images and tutorials. I went back, re-did the whole model and all the textures. Here are the results of the updated version. This is simply rendered in 3DS Max, and will eventually render it in UDK once I'm completely satisfied with the asset, and ready to show it off.…