Mayaniac, that one seems to be a favourite, i like it too.
reminds me of the earth, so i've kind of done something i totally failed to do 5 years ago

jjmacky, I once asked how to make flat things round..
the advice was to take a round object like a cylinder
align the bottom faces to the edges taht need to be curved out (snap pivot to the vertex in the middle of the cap and then snap the object to a vert that needs to be changed)
then snap all the other verts that need to be changed to the verts on the cylinder

since the cylinder is already round it follows that the newly snapped verts will also make a round surface

when i did that i found an edge loop i could get rid of

gster, layer mask... i didn't know they existed until now.. i see the icon, will explore it at some point


another update:

new silver sword
instead of smudging some brush strokes around in photoshop i used clouds, then fibres because there was too much orange in the clouds (not sure if you can change it so that there is more of one colour than the other with clouds... i dont think you can) then fibres took out a lot of the orange
oh yeah, and liquify tool mixed it all up

new guard too. didn't bother keeping the old normal map..

new gold sword, same treatment but without the fibres because there was enough orange to begin with



new shoes
the yellow didn't show up so prominantly (is that the word i'm even looking for?) didn't bother saving the file so i can't edit it...


and the new overall look from the front