I think this new design for the railings will work fine, much better than the previous one.

Showing how edge structure can make it easy to LOD a model.

I am working on redoing the railings (need something that looks higher poly) and decided to make a highpoly and project a normalmap. If you have a 'normal bump' applied to a 'highpoly' mesh, when you project normals, not only will it project the highpoly mesh, it will also project the applied normlamap. Here are my results from this process so far.

Well I completed the texture for the statue last night. I also did a specular and normalmap based on the little tiles that make up the surface.

Well I spent the last day or so playing around with the Unreal Editor. Its been a while since I even opened it so it took a little bit to get everything setup and working ingame, but I finally got it together.

Really just ingame at this point to check my scale and make sure everything is working correct.