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I suggest making the drill much thicker and more stylized (unless this is a remake of pl_beerbowl and the final point is a bottle of wine).
Ok, so I actually downloaded pl_beerbowl, to see what you were talking about, and it's a really cool map, completely unrelated to my map plans...
Does this look better (more drill-like) ?
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Steve explained my joke, it looked (and still looks) like a bottle opener. I suggest going for the stereotypical conical drill, like so:

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Well whichever you choose - don't screw it up!
 

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Kinda like a fracking drill to me. It looks realistic to me, which is fine, but I don't think it looks particularly awesome, which is the main problem. I'm not convinced changing the style of the bit would help that though. Perhaps seeing it used in a neat animated sequence might.
 
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My original reference picture is this:
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(and the photoshopped drillcart I had made and posted a few pages ago.)
Although Seba's drill design is very cool-looking and might fit tf2's style better, it seems to be used almost only in sci-fi overscaled drill vehicles (1, 2). My cart is much smaller, and will not be used for tunnel excavation (because that will make the cart even slower, and the fps probably even worse than if the players will get pinned to the drill), but for making a hole in some huge toxic cemicals tank, water dam or other important enemy facility. Also, considering this is my first model, I prefer to go with the simpler design, which is the bottle-opener one.
 
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If the thing came off the prop and fell to the ground then people would say you have a screw loose!

Ok I'll stop with the bad puns now :p
 

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Oh, I thought it was meant to be a drill you'd use to dig a tunnel or something. Carry on then!
 

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I've seen the whole smaug sequence like six or seven times now. Smaug is pretty much all I can think about.

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