Some hard surface practice.
Model and texture done in blender, rendered in cycles.
looks very nice 
Very good. Were you going for a sorta cartoonish look?
Yep! I tried to model a conventional M4/M16, but the receiver proved to be a bit of a topology nightmare, so I opted to go with something stylized, pulling from a few different rifles.
cool!!
now I have to fill up space because my comment was too short
I really love that, and there’s something nice about the cartoon look that I prefer over ultra realism. How long have you been using blender? I’m quite new so I’m curious 
Wow! Fantastic style. Love how you stretched many of the forms.
Few years now. Started around 2010.