I would just like to express my irritation with revolvers. The grips of revolvers are an absolute pain in the posterior to model. Why must people make things not easily expressible in terms of cylinders and cuboids? Or alternatively, when will I be able to create meshes and use those instead?
Ahem. Do excuse me. I am trying to make a model of the Smith and Wesson Russian Model revolver and am suffering.
Perhaps you could make all the odd parts with several prims and then cover them up by the sides using two rectangular prims with a texture with alpha. Like that guy who made the guitar for Suzanne Vega: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQL8_HB1HtQ.
Just a suggestion to alleviate the pain on the posterior :):)
Hugs!
Daniela.