Texturing the Desert Rose for Team Fortress 2

I’ve spent about 7.5 hours texturing the “Desert Rose“ (compressed to 26 minutes here). 00:00 Setting up base colors and starting with edge wear 02:20 Adding a bit of rust 03:20 Golden ornaments 06:20 More metal brush strokes and more edge wear 09:55 Adding some gradients 10:30 Dirt smudges 12:40 Adding a normal map for the engravings 14:25 Detailed engravings 23:50 Details on the grip plate and final tweaking Go visit this item on the workshop here