It's the noisy cricket from Men In Black. (if you haven't seen the movie the gun would fit in your hand)
I think my biggest drawback when I do stuff like this is scenery. I like a clean simple look but also have some other stuff in there to compliment the image or even direct the eye to it a little. Doing photography this should be easy for me but for some reason real composition is tricky for me...
) and you might wanna autosmooth (or subsurf) the mesh a little, the faces are visible. Apart from that great model 