The speckles are due to the conversion from a Maya iff image at 1024x768 to a JPEG at 640x480, which always sucks it seems. The paint has a silver flake to it which just won't come out clear with a JPEG at that resolution, and subsequently it looks speckly. I'd post a nice high res image, but this forum seems a bit weird with large image attachments.

Yeah, I've got to finish up the modeling, I shouldn't get impatient.