one closeup too…
That IS how wooden poles look. How would you make one NOT go along the grain?
would look better if it had a small angle repeating along the lenght
right now it looks more like a very long raingy wood whichi don’t remember seeing on wood piece !
but if you don’t make any close shot i guess it won’t be seen anyway!
happy 2.6
Started texturing. I know that its not very smooth, but later it will be mutch smaller, so its not so visible 
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Depending on the species of wood you use it’s entirely realistic. Common practice is to have the grain travelling in the longest dimension. From the few pictures I see, there is a relative tight grain along one edge, and a looser (wider spaced) grain along the adjacent face. Although the spacing block in the second image doesn’t look quite right, I might have ran the grain in the opposite direction. Is this an actual camera model, or just based on something?
Nobody who knows who to work with wood would cut it like that. The way his currently got is the way you cut wood. Wood is a composite material and if you cut it like you suggested you are throwing away a lot of good bending strength.
No its not exact model of certain camera, but it is mostly based on late 1920s Zeiss Ikon 
Looks awesome! 
Good stuff!
i bow before you …
Diggin’ the camera model. Great detail and good job with the modeling.
the wood grain is in the right direction, but it’s too big. I makes the tripod appear to be only 2 or 3 inches tall.
I may be biased because I love old cameras but the camera is still the first thing I notice in the scene. Excellent work on the camera, very realistic. The furniture looks great as well.
