I’ve recreated the Viper probe droid from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Note that the bolts are extruded outward since I couldn’t find any proper way to cut holes in the main body.
You could make holes a few ways. Use subsurf and delete the faces. You could also make a cylinder and intersect the mesh and use the boolean modifier to cut out the hole, although it might make your mesh a little messy but it’s not a huge deal.
This is the hole workflow I use. You need the LoopTools addon. (You can also bevel your edges instead of creasing them or just add support edges, the result would be more or less the same)
How is this? Alternatively try this direct link… http://www.todornikolov.com/3D/holes_workflow.gif
If it doesn’t work then I’m done trying to post animated GIFs.
I forgot to say that you have an excellent model there!
@ToshiCG Using LoopTools would work quite well but it’s also quite time consuming. I decided to give BoolTools another shot and discovered the auto-smooth option…here’s the comparison:
Great work on texturing and shading. Putting that droid into some real snowy/icy/rocky scene and choosing some good camera angle could be a great base for a really nice render.