This is my latest project. I am recreating my waterman pen and hope to achieve near photorealistic results so I will need to focus on the materials and the bump maps. Right now, most of the modeling is done and I will start workign on the bump maps for scratches and the tip’s lines and logo’s.
this could be pretty nice if you put a bit more work into it. My main crits at the moment is the obvious one that you need to turn OSA on/up. Next is the wood floor texture, really easy to see the repartition in it.
Blend on!
-maniac 4 hire
I usually turn on AA until I am ready for my final Render
I will change the wood texture since its way to repetitive and I will model another pen or 2 and change some other things in addition to adding detail to the pen itself
please turn on osa, my eyes are old 
with osa on, its easier to see the texture work. i like where this is headed, but be warned, photorealism is incredibly difficult.