Fil - Lovely! Such a system will also let us choose our shadow color based on envoronment, too, so that not all will be in the same light 
Hmm...I looked back on the weapons sheet you produced and I took a few to my fancy and started to make some visual ideas for various weapons throughout the game. Not exactly sure if you will like them. It was somewhat fun to pixelate some of these and change the physical material compounds, but anyway it was still just some breach work on ideas, and I don't know but for some reason I was thinking gold?:

Though, I decided to go a little bit past 5 min. gold masking, onto a crystal set, though because this is taking a bit longer due to detail I just wanted to ask you before hand if you would like, care to see the set. Here is a sample of how much I've gotten done with a one:

Anyway, it's for the sake of practice that I've been doing some of this, and it's rare to come across weapon outlines.
PS: I had some time so I made some variations on the sand, color and partially detail wise.

