hello!
i am pretty new to this, so go easy on me pls :-p
well here is my first (on my own) projekt,
i having trouble with the horse so it might be a wile before i can finnish this one 
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It looks really weird how half the pieces are darkers than the others. Maybe a lighting problem?
As for the models, it looks like the king and queen don’t have a base yet. And the rooks look a little bit skinny for my taste. It’s a good start, though.
yes it was a lightning problem i still dont now what im doing in some things,
i forgot to tell a litle bakground.
i am reading noob to pro wikibook , and every interesting tutorials i can find
anyway, here is a new render of the chess pieces,
and if anyone have a tip of how to make the horse i would be wery happy,
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the knight can be a right nightmare (excuse the pun). your best bet. would be to try and find some referance shots (front and side) of a hourses head (same horse would be good) and line them up and use that as a starting point to model the knights head. trust me it will be difficult so dont get disheartened if you dont manage it the first time 
oops dont mean to double post. but i had a thaught. if you would like me to set it up in blender and send yout he file i will.
thanks for the tip [email protected] , no you dont have to do all that, i want to figure out most of it my self, but thanks anyway mate 
here is a new render of the whole board, the colors and all that i will work on when the night is finnished … hehe (if it gets finnished).
Try using osa and use set smooth (I cant tell if you have it extremly subdivded or not)
i have subsurfaces = 2 on most of the objekts, and “set smooth”
i tried to not use subdevide but with some of them i had to, perhaps in the future i will lern to do all this in a better way.