Inspired by Chipps textures on his german energy device, and the fact that I've never really tried texturing before, I thought I'd have a go.  The "thing" is modelled by me in Hex (my modelling sucks too but I'm working on it) and textured by yrs truly in Photoshop using the tutorial by Stonemason on CGSociety - It's a bit addictive this texturing lark :)

Looks good to me Frank, well done!!

Yup nice textures are time consuming and addicting, but add a lot to the overall look. Looks like a nice job Frank!

Looks great! Did you use Chipp's tutorial?

Looks real good. I like the fading paint showing the metal underneath a lot.

Quote - Looks great! Did you use Chipp's tutorial?

Yup, and the one by StoneMason

cool

Where is that tut from Stonemason on CGSociety? I can't find it.

Attached Link: CG Society link

Thanks! ;)

BTW really good work with your texturing and modelling. ;D

Attached Link: Stefan's PDF tutorial

Looks really good Frank. How about some close up shots in perspective? There's also this great link to Stefan's PDF tutorial, which is a bit different from the one at CGSocitey.

Quote - Looks really good Frank. How about some close up shots in perspective?

I'll see if I can sneak it into my next render.  I just finished the specularity map 'cos the atmosphere in the render isn't going to be HDRI and it looked a bit flat without one