Hey there.
This is my first render upload since I’ve been absent (for many, many months 
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That was my first render of the Desert Eagle, with a texture near the back, but I didn’t like it, so I took it off:
Various updates from then on, peruse to your liking:
Please tell me what you think of it, and what I should add/change.
put an anistropic brushed metal tex on that baby. great modeling
Good idea! Now I just have to figure out what an anistropic brushed metal tex is 
(or, at least, anistropic)
anistropic is a description of the linear specular highlights that most metals (especially brushed metals) have. search the forums for anistropic metal and you’ll see… some people’s I saw recently look pretty amazing
Hm, I searched the forum but couldn’t find anything.