not so keen on the model to be honest. I think its really basic It's not meant to be impressive or complex at all, I'm still very much in the early stages of my modelling 'career' as such, and just wanted to improvise something (for 'something' also see 'anything') for a bit of fun. I have since had looooads of great ideas for details, which I really should have jotted down before even starting, but like I said, it wasn't a very ambitious outing in Maya to start with you definitely need to turn shadows on, your render is quite flat. Was struggling with the rendering because Maya had disabled Mental Ray rendering without asking first (how rude!) did a few google searches to find out why Mental Ray wasn't appearing in my render options and it turns out that Maya 2012 makes a habit of turning your plug-ins off on a whim. Figured out how to get Mental Ray going today actually, so I did a new render of my AK-47 model; (see, I can do half-decent models too!) Martin