Street Lamp

 Here's a quick screenshot of my attempt to model an intricate streetlamp with the create polygon tool. A valiant attempt - but to no avail - I will endeavor to model it using primitives instead.

I then changed the design I was using  for the lamp to this;
http://ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/patchinplacegaslamptall.jpg

Here are some screenshots of my modeled lamp with ambient occlusion ;

Here's the UVs with the ambient occlusion baked on to it;

Here are the Textures I used on the lamp, followed by the Maps I used;

http://www.mayang.com/textures/Metal/images/Corrugated%20Metal/corrugated_iron_sheet_6190170.JPG

http://www.mayang.com/textures/Metal/images/Corrugated%20Metal/corrugated_030210.JPG

 http://www.mayang.com/textures/Metal/images/Flat%20Metal%20Textures/metal_mould_layer_4082173.JPG

 Specular Map

Normal Map

Both maps have been made using CrazyBump (c)

Screenshots;

All the screen shots above show that the whole lamp was being illuminated by the light inside of it - I eventually managed to fix this by fiddling with all of the light settings. It ended up being the Light FX section which made the most difference - and from there I was able to tweak the colouring and intensity - see screenshots below;

And here is the final lamp render in full;