Bach TB300

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I've never made any addons before (except for the ones in brsseb's tutorials).  This is the first time I've tried modelling something without a tutorial in O2.  So it's not gonna be that great just to warn you all

Anyways, I'm working on a Bach TB300 Tenor Trombone.  It was the only thing I own that seemed easy enough to model.  

This is the the picture I used for a reference:

TB300

These are the two pictures I have of the model I made, one is in O2 the other is in Buldozer.  

*Note that at the moment, there is no outer slide on the trombone. All that is modeled is the bell and the inner slide. Also there's no textures, but I think you can see that from the pictures

I'd gladly accept any tips, criticism, or anything else you have to say.

[Heatseeker 0]

Animations for it , that could be a problem, if your going to record and use your personal sounds/music, well i just hope you play that thing well .

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I'd like to have animations for it, but I'll have to look into that further. Anyone know somewhere to learn more about animations?

Hmmm, never thought about recording sounds for it, but It probably wouldn't be a bad idea.

[CAPAIRMAN 0]

intersting . i can play the trombone.

[hardrock 1]

Cool! How about a Bach trumpet? Or a Weber cornet? I always wanted to model my trumpet, but somehow never got to it

Keep on the nice stuff

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Cool! How about a Bach trumpet? Or a Weber cornet? I always wanted to model my trumpet, but somehow never got to it

I think I'll plan to make a few other insturments.  Trumpet would be one, Tuba/Sousaphone, probably an Alto Sax too.  If anyone else has more ideas I'll consider them.

Today I've been working on textures, I'm horrible at Photoshop, but I'm just making some temporary textures until my friend who is much better at Photoshop gets back from a trip.  While he's gone I thought I'd show everyone on the forums some of my horrible PS skills

This is the texture for brass bell, tuning slide, and slide brace:

This is the Texture for the engraving that comes on the top of the bell of the TB300:

This is the texture for the silver braces, mouthpiece, and the slide catch:

If anyone knows how to make the brass textures look more shiny and reflective I'd love to know  

EDIT:

I just got some textures put on the model, O2 finally seems like it's working again.  I guess I'll show a screen of what these temporary textures look like.

Image compression seems to be really making that screenshot blurry. You get the general idea of what the trombone will look like though.

They aren't the best textures, I'm having my friend DaTek work on some better textures, in a few weeks I'll have some more info.