JoePublic : You have a killer eye for flaws.

Say there are 2 tanks for sell and there the badest tanks ever seen.
There both modeled,maped,textured till there wicked.
but one has some small flaws.
The flawless one will get the sells.
If the flawed one had you to point out the flaws.more sells.

oh ya at work we always work from drawings/blueprints always.
at home , if I was making a 2010 chevy camaro.I'd goggle till I had references .jpgs

The Spitfires are a good exsample of best textures get sells.

You can get the bottom Spitfires and StoneMason texture out of Gimp.
Just half to use 2000x2000 might get 3kx3k,4kx4k pixels sheets.

StonMasons trash can is also a good exsample of the mesh not matching the texture.
the texture is old and worn.but the mesh is perfect like it's new.

 

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