hehe definately dave, its either modelling or playing games and I've purposely not got any games on my laptop at the minute
I'm not sure how to do the normal mapping. I might even study what colours are set when a normal map is created and actually have a go at drawing them in (saves on the modelling time if it'll work). Thing is as soon as the new challenge comes out this model will sit for another 2 months

Definately THX1138, then you'll be able to see all the shortcuts in the body geometry i've used (some +4sided polys in there I can tell you). When I get the texture done that'll be uploaded too