Thanks for the feedback. I built regular models of these before the sculpts. You're definitely right about how it'd be easier to make changes down the line if I just did it all regularly but this was actually my first try at sculpting on weapons and I wanted to try something different. At least I learned something though!…
It would probably be easier to polymodel these instead of sculpting them. Especially if you were to change anything down the line such as moving details around as you'd otherwise need to re-sculpt them in a new location. I'd just model it in Max or whatever as that would give better control, but different strokes for…