To recreate a lot of metals used in weapons Painter alone is fine, you don't need to design it from scratch in designer. I recommend these tutorials to check out workflows for texturing and creating materials in painter:…
The tutorial zio linked above is the one he directed me to when i first posted my crappy model lol, even though i use blender vs 3ds max I learned a lot from it. granted I scrapped my last model before getting to the substance painter portion, if that section is as good as the parts I've seen it'll give you a whole lot of…
I was about to be like "this thing is way to thin" but after looking up a ref picture...wow that thing is tiny. I guess the only glaring issue I have with it, and I sure you know it, Is the painted black metal+wear could be pushed a lot more. If it weren't for the logo/letters/numbers, which appear quite on point, I'm not…