those cylinders do not need that many sides. period. I second MOP's idea of making the gun model blend in with the mesh so it doesnt look like a mech with a Q3 gun hovering in mid air above it.
Flush with the somewhat success of bringing my Alkyries model successfully into Q3, I decided to try my hand at a nice, giant robot... scaled down, if course. And what better giant robot than the Mac II Monster from Macross? Still working on the skin, with assistance from a buddy (named Synthos)... EDIT: The Q3 Rocket…
Heh, those "four big long tubes", in the original mech, are 16 inch battleship cannons... there's huge vents on the back to help compensate for recoil. The durn thing is supposed to be 22 meters tall and 285 metric tons. :P Quite a bit bigger than the "junior" version I'm making. And I probably will end up modelling a…