Yeah, Rayraz, try with a different texture. But the thing with a flat colour and the texture really makes me think that it's a problem on the model. I tried with Athens and a robot from Poser, and the texture works quite okay. So, if you have a program that can unify the normals, try that, too. Or, it occurs to me now, see if all the polygons are the same shape. Because the artifacts apparently don't reflect the light in the same way as the other polygons. BTW, similar problem with that half-textured polygons in the zoom happens in Poser when you import un-mapped model. AS, I was looking for the shape of the distortion that appears in the zoomed area of Rayraz's picture.

-- erlik