Great initiative, this is an area of the world that needs a lot of gear built, and a lot of Indian weaponry could show up in various parts of Asia and the Middle East without being ahistorical
I agree, it's important to build the textures nicely, instead of just doing planar projections and using photo-textures.
Even if your texturing skills are pretty bad, you can unwrap them to have a reasonable use of UV space and minimal distortion. See the meshes Mackie's been making lately for some examples.