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Modelling Help\Screenshots\Requests
It has always been difficult to get decent models for quake 1. So a thread where people can get advice on making models and post a work-in-progress for critiques is long overdue.

Any requests for models may well get met with silence. Specific requests will likely stand a better chance; "I'd really like a knight but carrying a shield" might be better received than "we need a mdler to join our mod remaking counter-strike for darkplaces".
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I hope I will be able to shoot pineapples into those pants and have the back pop off. 
Flp 
naaahhhh... I won't steal pleasure from you :) I have to finish my stuff anyway. 
 
flp: good concept. Maybe give him a thunderbolt instead of a blaster. Use the thunderbolt on medium range, grenades on long range and a kick as a melee attack. 
Did The Model 
I'm very happy with the the result.

http://i.imgur.com/VaJcIX2.png

I also made a lot of in between saves to document the stages later.
I might be able to reduce a little geometry on the boots and then do a weapon.
I hope it will fit in the quake poly limits 
Awesome Work! 
That looks great! Nice going and looking forward to the progress! 
Thumbs Up! 
flp, looks very solid so far. 
 
Nice one flp. Give him a big gun like a mini gun or something! 
Thanks Guys 
I went with Bloughsburgh's idea about the base ogre a bit and made some sort of chainsaw/grenlauncher fuse.

http://i.imgur.com/MPgv3TR.png

but I'm not entirely sure about it.

Do you know if it is necessery in quake to merge the model geometry with the weapon?

All quake models that have weapons seem to be one solid object. Could I have disconnected geometry in my model? 
Soldier Model 
Taking a base frame of the soldier in account show a model, a weapon and a gun blast. The weapon looks attached but it is diverted.
So it is best to keep the weapon apart, and the blast fire later will be used for attack scenes. 
You're Right. 
I just reexamined some of the models in necros editor and they actually aren't connected.

I also didn't realize that there where muzzleflashes. They seem to be hidden inside the model also detachted.

Thx, now I know how to proceed. 
I Like The Weapon 
I think I'll stick with it. It's kinda cool.

http://i.imgur.com/OkWRNGx.png

Blender's riggify is awesome. Rigging took 10mins and it just works.
The model (including gun) currently has 681 verts, 1366 tris which should be just okay. 
 
I like it. Enforcer but with a chainsaw 
 
flp, looks nifty :) 
Awesome! 
 
 
if you are making a muzzle flash, best to hide it in the gun, near the muzzle. some engines will lerp the muzzle flash and if you stick it in the body you can see it moving between those two spots which can look bad. 
Looks Great! 
Really cool to see the idea come from concept drawing to model! 
Flp 
that's a spicya meataballa 
Just Wanted To Share A Little Progress. 
I'm currently texturing at a sluggish pace.

http://i.imgur.com/d3KFLaG.png 
 
Needs more brown I think? 
Brown = Quake 
You are right. It's very hard to get the colors right. I don't even think there's very much blue in quake at all. I will change the weapon. I've tried color picking from the original textures to find base colors. Seems like quake in general is a world of brownish mud.

http://i.imgur.com/SpciqRk.png 
Hmmmm 
Model looks great but I'm concerned that such polygon density will cause a lot of the detail to just collapse once you run it through the meat-grinder that is 8-bit MDL vertex precision... 
Resolution Is Too High Imho 
 
Oh Of Course 
These are just wip shots. The polycount is well in quakelimits and the model looks good in quake too.

The texture resolution is double the targetsize and also in truecolor because thats just the way I paint. There is a lot of detail that will get lost in translation. Luckily this includes some of the dullness and subpar painting.

Here's a screenshot of what it will look like after the conversion.

http://imgur.com/VHsPzeh 
 
The polycount is well in quakelimits

It's not about polycount - it's about vertex density, and you'll only see the collapsing verts once all the anims are done, not with a t-pose test.

However, you seem to know what you're doing so I'll stop being annoying now. 
I Think I Understand. 
It's about vertices that are to close to each other?

I actually didn't think about this :( Well I'll just hope for the best then. 
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