This tutorial series is pretty good. It covers most of the bases. [ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVpXK76N2mM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVpXK76N2mM[/ame] Some good stuff in here as wellhttp://www.philipk.net/tutorials/materials/materials.html. Other than that it is mostly trial and error and a lot of…
Personally I don't think the image you are aiming for look realistic at all. It's just a bunch of tiled photo textures. You should be looking at stuff like this: Also you should be getting good reference of the movie prop and really study and make sure your proportions are spot on. Here a few ref images: Besides that look…