Hi there!
I took a break from the chessboard but not from Blender. I challenge myself and picked a toy from my kids and here is the almighty FART GUN from the Despicable Me movies! I used many things that I learned trou all the lectures so far. Comments and critiques are welcome!!
The last render is in Shade Smooth Cycles.
Something does not smell right about this! 
Great little ‘weapon’.
Smooth shading in places might help it.
Thanks for your comments. Can you Elaborate more about “smooth shading”? I’ll look that up on YT, but I bet the Blender Course have that covered.
Select an object, right click, and choose shade smooth.
You might also need to go to the object data properties, Green triangle, tab, and the Normals dropdown and tick the auto smooth box. (To fix some glitches)
NIce! Thanks for the tip.
