Hi guys,  I'm looking for a few opinions on how I'm doing with this.  I tried making the textures by hand and dislike the results, so I thought I might use a photo I found of the same engine.  Please give me honest opinions here guys.  If it sucks, please tell me.  I can't learn if I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

Kevin

Here's the original photo...



I isolated the top jug, because it seemed the best defined and put in an aluminum area and the hub...



Then I stacked the 9 jugs on top of each other, placed the rods and some other parts in the aluminum...



A little bullying vertices around, and this is what I got in the viewport...



And installed in the plane rendered in Max ...

It really looks nice! Congratulations, Please show me how it looks when you hide the radial cowling . I've tried to make the piping and the wiring work on the transparent texture for the Renault engine of a Caudron but the result was really awful due to the priority of colours. Will you as such details how do you deal with?

I isolated the one jug, then carefully colored in the rods, then mapped the rods to a silver texture...  Easier done than said.