well i kindof have to agree with dudeguy…looking at the overall texture of the top and the bottom part of the armor the rust looks more like dirty camo than rust…its hard to put my finger on it…
there’s no rhyme or reason as to where the rust is occurring
still awesome tho 
The only thing I find disturbing is the helm…if you look at the body armor…the rust is in where rust would be…seems,edges,ect…i’m also assuming that this is just a base color…if you’ve seen any of leighs prior work, you should know that it will look wonderful…great job leigh…now get your ass working…haven’t seen an update for a while now…
:wip: :surprised
I actualy dislike the shape of the helm and think it needs to be multi parts, and I can’t wait to see how she does the tatterd garments… But i still vote for hood!
Okay, first of all, since I just viewed this thread for the first time, I have to admit I haven’t read all the posts in it (ducks)
It’s looking great, and I’m seriously looking forward to see how the cloth is goign to turn out textured!
Oh, and I like the lanky look of him as well, although I kind of agree that the helmet is probably the week part of the model, it doesn’t really flow with the style of his breast plates and stuff…
I fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinaly have time for an update! :bounce:
Sorry it’s been ages, but I have been writing 
Thanks for all the comments, support, crits, and suggestions! There are waaaayyy too many to respond to individually (again), so I can’t reply to everyone, but I do want to address some points made by people :
the helmet is being altered. It’s not finshed yet, but will be soon. I’m busy seperating all the pieces and as soon as I have something looking good, I’ll post it.
There is still a cloack and hood to come.
I have started on the clothes, but I hate the way they look at the moment, so I am not posting a render yet.
dudeguy - thanks for the crits and suggestions I mentioned somewhere earlier that the spec maps are still a bit rough, which is why there isn’t too much differentiation between the rusted and non-rusted bits. I’ll be dealing with that now.
As for the placement of the rust, I’m a big believer of placing details correctly, and with this, I gave long, hard thought to the placement of the rust, and in the end, decided that an all-over kind of almost-random placement suited it.
As for the designs, nope, I didn’t make them from scratch. They came from fonts which I altered 
Dirt still to come!
Back to business :wip:
Here is a new render. I’ve done the gauntlets now, and as you can see I’ve been playing with the colours in the armour a bit - particularly in the rust areas.
Go GIRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLL:applause: :bounce:
Looking fantastic, absolutely love it.
but not such a long delay this time Leigh, ok?
lata
AH DAMNIT LEIGH! you had to go and break the armor :annoyed: damn damn damn, now it looks to authetic 
grrrrrr.
This is pratically the best texturing job I’ve seen you do to date, it makes all your other work whimper, I mean you went all out here. Its frickin STELLAR GIRL! sheesh :argh:
salud
:bowdown: I M P R E S S I V E ! :bowdown:
Texturing was perfect, but your playing with the colours made it perfect x 10 !
Cant wait to see this finished…
-chickenpixel
Once again I will say you are doing a wonderful job Leigh,corrosion is beautiful is’nt it. Also the modeling I would like to add is smooth and spot on.Keep going,you are creating a beautiful piece of art.
Excellent work Leigh:thumbsup: I like how the metal is more clean in the broken zones. I think you could do it even more, on the edges of the plates.
:eek: :buttrock:
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT IS THIS !!!1
I went through this thread and read most of the posts, and I’m shocked. Who dares to point some troubles with this texturing? I saw works of people that have any doubts about god-like texturing from Leigh and they match 0,00001% of Leigh’s skills.
Leigh: I think the good advise from members is welcomed, but critics - how come???. I haven’t seen anything like this from a very long time, mayby besides Markus’ Mercedes. Where can I buy you books and video tuts??
I would say it in Polish : KUUUUURRRRWAAAAAAA !!! Zajebiste
Well, i would maybe repeat what the others say… but your texturing work is really impressive ! :surprised :eek:
No doubt your Elf is ready to enter the real Middle Earth world with such realism ! Keep going Texturing goddess !
I must say that that armor is kick ass. Something about the arm bothers me but I dont think it matters because its a wraith.
Great stuff leigh cant wait to see more.
Hey Leigh,
Been watching your thread for awile now to see where you were going with it. Just like to say great job texturing Goddess, the textures are wonderful on the armor, so I wont critique that. I think your at a stage that you should really go all out on the modeling of the body of this character. Get those human anatomy books out and use em for reference for this piece, the way its coming out, beautiful btw! I just want to see the body proportionate and the muscularature right on with the armor, you have a great thing going here, keep up the good work…
SEL
It’s supposed to be metal!
Hehehe…
The funny thing is, I originally textured it to be leather (never posted a render though) and even though I decided to change it to metal, I never quite got rid of the leather look :surprised
There is something about the idea of the leather that has evidently lingered, and snuck into these textures… it’s really quite bizarre.
Thanks for all the comments everyone!!
SEL - yeah the arms are actually quite crap. That’s because they don’t have any elbows LOL I still need to finish them off properly…
Swag - that looks fantastic I’m pumping up the contrast now…
Update coming soon! :bounce:
