Right this is my first go at making something substantial i have been playing around with blender for years now but i havnt ever made anything worth posting on the net, at last i have toned my modelling skills and managed to model my MiniDisk player, but i still cant texture for shit. I need help and hints, the inner circle needs to be like a brushed metal effect. Please help, i kinda embarrased about it at the moment 
It’s good. Only real crits are the lighting and the lack of bevelled edges. The round portion on the top needs more verts, or needs to be sub-surfed.
Other than that, I think it is very good.
BgDM
yeah! looking good. like bgDM said you need to bevel. (it’s the key to realism). The volume buttons need smoothing, and all the other buttons need slight rounding on the edges. (nothing in real life is THAT sharp).
I agree with bgDM on the other stuff too.
Excellent start though! 
Right i have made a render with yafray, but i am having trouble using my blender materials in yafray does it support multiple textures on 1 object if now then im screwed and will have to make serious changes to the model.
I am also having trouble using yable to make materials at all i had to use Yafray GUI to get rid of the default materials.
1 last thing, is it posible to get rid of the noise that yafray renders a bit?
Nice render.
Yafray does not support Blender textures currently. There are built in procedurals in YableX exporter that you can add.
As far as multiple textures, yes it does support it. But you will have to UV map and then apply each image as a different texture to affect SPEC, Bump, etc. It does not support multiple shaders on the same object within the GUI. You will need to sperate each piece that you want different shaders applied to, unfortunately.
As for the noise, just increase the samples of your light, (if using a HEMI light, set it to about 10-12), and you can also try the Anti-Noise filter button at the bottom of the first Yable screen.
BgDM
Woot! Your modeling my minidisc player 
These little things are fantastic, both me and my little brother have this exact model…
Anyway, I took a load of pictures of my own recently, with the plan to model it – But at the end of the day I couldn’t be bothered, I guess Im too damn lazy 
Anyway, they could be useful textures for you:
Low Res:
http://hotlink.reblended.com/daveyboy/Temp/Minidisc_Texture1.jpg (High Resolution 1.08 megs…)
Ive done a bit of fiddling around and came up with this. Now that i have those pictures, thanks. I’m going to add more detail.
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nice
Very helpful!
Right at last i think that this is finished, i hope you like it. I’m going to post it in the finished works forum now.
