Nice work.
Last year I took the same tut. That was then my first ever model.
Never got to texture it, seen the busy workflow here at the office.
Rendered some occlusions, for me that is always the coolest :-)
Here are some pics of what I came up with.
in the end it always comes down to personalisation

Anyhow, can't wait to see it renderen

Keep up the good work.
If you're going to rig it and animate.... That would be awesome!!

GR
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