For our project we needed to make a weapon’s stand and some weapons, first I found some reference drawings to model the weapons from. The material is metal.
The weapon shelves are made of wood. The weapon shelves were simple to make, I did this by using polygon shapes and manipulating them with various tools we had learned before, then I found a good material map to give the model a more woody texture.
It is not difficult to make a metal weapon model, but my weapon is not very metallic, I personally feel it is more like plastic.