You can remove all the triangles around the bullets in the magazine. If you keep the bullets as they are ant then just make the holes black. It will not be noticeable in an reload animation and you will save a HUGE amount of triangles. I think the whole gun is to highres for a game to. Just course a "TF2"-gun CAN have 8000…
I would really go back to references on this, some of the shapes look pretty off. It looks like this is the model you're working on? Looks pretty nice so far, but I have a few nitpicks. The piece on the bottom of the shotgun barrel sits off and mounts on the side. (presumably for easy loading). This is a detail that gives…