Comments: The reference picture below was found on a World War 2 site that sells memorabilia. I decided not to 'cheat' this time and painted the texture from scratch using Photoshop and my Wacom ArtPad. The model will be made into a 'working' flare gun by White Rabbit [yes, creator of the famous Multiplayer Model Pack!] that will light an area when fired.

I've included the next couple of shots in order to show a tiny sample of what it takes to create a model.

The Japanese flare gun picture used to create the model and texture.

This is the texture map under development.

Here is a shot of the model inside the game.