Reskinning weapons?

Sorry if this has been asked before or if its in the wrong section.

I've been wanting to make some custom weapon skins (specifically .357), but whenever I add them, the weapon ends up silver, or very bright in certain lighting. When a light is right above or to the side, the weapon looks great, but at pretty much any other area of a map, it looks silver or faded. Ive seen many tutorials, but none have said anything about this problem.

If someone could give me some tips on how to improve what I'm doing, or how to start from the beginning, I would very much appreciate it

Notes: I edited with Paint.net.
HDR Lighting is not on.
I edited over a custom sheet that I've been using for a while. (Can be found here: http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/3967)

IDK man, i've been reskinning in alot of games under alot of engines for a long time and it shouldnt be a problem if you used a sheet etc...

if you didnt made any successful game reskins with paint.net, that would be your problem

How to fix it:

-torrent
-Photoshop
-smile

Hmm, I seemed to have made it work =]

Downloaded a new sheet, upgraded paint.net, and added a .vmt and now it works great.

Here is a test skin (It took about 5 minutes hehe)

good to hear that fixed it

GL HF skinning, let me know about your work !