You should show your handpainted texture, it's important. Love the shield, looks really good, you should create more objects in the same style :) Just keep going and add more stuff to your portfolio.
Looking good, personally I think you have shown you can handpaint textures. *thumbs up If you want to persue that avenue I would create 1 more asset that really pops like your shield. because the TF2 however well you matched the art style it doesn't have that pop for me. and your high poly modeling skills show me that you…