Yes, the skin is the refrence picture... again, because this was an exercise in modeling, I wasnt even planning to skin it at all...
Thank you for all the kind words, it did take me a while to get this gun looking right.
@Grimber: Thank you for the suggestion, about planning out my models beforehand. I will definately try this on my next model.
@frazzle: thanks, and yes, for an FPS, I supose it is not that bad, but there are areas that, for the sake of easy modeling, I split flat surfaces into more than two polies, which just creates higher polycount... Hopefully planning will help

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@towelie: No problem, thank you for answering quicker than I could

thanks again to everyone, I supose Ill start something else now, and just keep learning from there.
Thanks,
Raddaddy