I do appreciate the feedback - whilst I am happy with this paint in its final form (as it was just a derusting exercise and a way to learn custom coded protodefs), I will try to keep this in mind with future War Paint projects.

Still too much yellow on too many weapons

I did originally make the texture with no shine in mind (looking more like yellow paint than brass), but since I don't entirely trust Valve to go through with implementing my custom-coded base WITH no shine, so I kept the material override Yeti Coated has by default.

I guess it takes inspiration from iron wood/mk2 but there's so much brass on too many weapons they look like poor mans aussies

My biggest issue with this one is that the gold feels a bit too close to Australium for me to feel like Valve would be willing to add it - plus it makes the reference less obvious. I'd tone down the shine and push it a bit more towards yellow than gold.