Couple questions on importing Thread

I have been trying for about a 4 or 5 weeks to get a model into hl2mp. The model I had had a horrible poly count so I simply just used a long rectangle just to see if i could get it in for giggles. I added v_oppressor folder and copied in all the files from the v_shotgun except for the references simply because I didn't want to deal with making new animations atm. Once I merged v_hands to the rectangle in XSI, I exported it as a a SMD file named oppressor_reference into the v_oppressor folder.
Next I took GUIStudioMDL and compiled the new qc file. Everything compiled fine after I linked up the proper files in the qc.
Lastly, I changed the script file after I added the code for the new weapon in the game.

The actual problem I am having is when I go into the game, the hands are there but no weapon of any sort to be found. I can't figure for the life of me why i cant seen to get the weapon model to show up. It even fires fine just no model to show for it.

Perhaps it is an issue with the material, what does the vmt look like? If left unchanged from the shotgun, perhaps the rectangle will require a texture projection and a texture that links to the one the shotgun used.

Yeh i didnt use any kind of material, I figured if I didnt it would just show a untextured box. I guess I thought wrong on that one. So i need to just put a texture on it? and link that in the qc file i guess?