Starting to move into the 21st century.
About 4 years ago I came up with the design for this steam-punk gun http://www.furaffinity.net/full/5019681 as part of a couple commissions. Since I had it laid out it seemed to lend itself to a new endeavor, namely starting to learn the Blender 3D modeling program. So other than following a couple on-line tutorials this has been the first project I have struck out on my own to do in Blender.
Still have a lot to learn but I guess not too bad for a first try, I hope.

To give credit where credit is due textures for parts of the model came from http://www.cgtextures.com/ .

So who uses Blender around here?