Thanks Dweenie! I will definitely smooth out those normals. There is a little bit of pinching due to the inset on the front part of the scope, so I will have to fix that up!
A bunch of the curves that are smooth/continuous in the concept seem to have corners in yours, I would definitely work on eliminating those since they look less aesthetically pleasing and it tends to be a dead give-away of an 'amateurish' model. I can see from the wireframe that this is caused in some cases by you not…