I think your diffuse could use a lot more saturation. Right now everything looks very bland and pastel. The example that bitmap posted looks more rich and solid imo. But your model and base textures look good :) just push the colors a bit more
Pretty cool model. Agree with everyone on the paleness of the paint. If you let your specular and glossiness speak for tonal variation you can afford to saturate/darken it a bit more. Darker diffuse paint usually reacts better under a lighting setup. Other than that some dirt maps would be nice on the pistons and to finish…
6 responses about my choice of yellow color is not really that constructive. With the real thing there is variation in paint color but the most common (and the color I am painting) looks like this: these are all from the first page of a Google image search for "cat 235" Is it the very bright ambient light that is bothering…