Hi Bob,
On pistols, the lock area is everything. They don't have big fore stocks or butt stocks, and the handles are usually pretty straight forward. The eye is first drawn to the lock and side plate. Yours could be better defined and the flats considerably smaller but the main advice I have concerns how you treat the front of the lock and side plate panels. Look closely at the pistols below.
The lock panels follow the lock back toward the pan rather than angling up to the barrel. That creates much better definition for the panels and slims them considerably. Also note the concavity of the edges of the panel is only tight right around the nose of the lock or side plate panel. As the panel curves back toward the pan, that concavity becomes much flatter. On the side plate panel, the shape is designed to fit the side plate rather than mirror the lock. On your pistol, the upper edge of the panel would look better if it was brought lower, closer to the side plate and the bottom edge raised closer to the plate. That would make the side plate panel look slimmer and trimmer and not so bulky. Moreover, consider cutting either a step in the side plate panel along the barrel channel or angle a smooth curving line down from the rear lock bolt to the nose of the panel but make the edge of it drop below the edge of the barrel channel. Again, that will slim things immensely. I have the same advice for your recent Sparrow pistol. That pistol is supposed to be English and my suggestions will help make it look more English. They are both handsome pistols and my advice is only meant to help you improve your game.
dave
