my only complaint is the clouds tend to make the weapon look more cluttered and distracts from the cooler details like the seared/forged metal the weapons tend to have,

Despite that, texture work and color scheme are phenomenal

I already quite like the cloud texture as it is, But if you do want to make this paint less contrasty. I would recommend changing the clouds colour from gold, to a lighter gray. That's all the feedback I can give you for this paint, everything else is phenomenal. Nice work fellas.

Edit: the cloud texture looks very blurry, I don't know if it's just here or in the actual war paint but either way it needs an update.

Looks good enough but I would love to see some in game screenshots.

add a third color, gold and black are not enough. Maybe white.

Cloud texture ruins it

beatifully done and amazing texturing, however it is way too realistic to mesh well with TF2, the lil clouds also are cluttery and it might be better without. Also not sure why you are showcasing this on a purple background, it really doesnt help making this look good. Id recommend a neutral background or even better some ingame tf2 screenshots

It is perfect, it captures the essence of Asian armor well and makes it feel like a weapon from the East.

The cloud texture really ruins it for me. I could see it looking nice if it were upscaled a lot more or if they all formed a design where they were kind of connected to each other, but right now it looks quite bad if you aren't focusing on it and the clouds feel pretty random when you do.
Gold and plate textures look very sick though, I think those two just with a plain third texture would look amazing.