After some tweaking i managed to get this. not exactly what i was trying but still having problems with AO renders.

Sadly im very bad at render settings and have only very recently used anything other than default maya textures and default settings.

Do you have a link for a tut on occlusion renders?

thanks.

A generic Revolver i designed. I wanted to do a project with no refs just go off my imagination and this is what i came up with.

After my first renders were really bland my girlfriend recommended...