Hi. Star Wars Pit droid here. 6454 tris pre-subdivision but it could be better since to be fast sometimes I forgot to lower down the number of edges on cilinders.
100 minutes modeling in Xsi 6.5 but probably even more time to gather references and try to understand them since I've found only low res and not so detailed images.
modeling workflow: create cilinder or cube. move, scale, freeze, move edge loops, vertexes, select and value crease edges, subdivide, refine. Repeat. move move move that time is ticking!!!
