UV Unwrapping in Blender 2.59

[eliasfrost]

Just to throw this in, sometimes when you unwrap the model the UVmap is curved and it can be hard to get the UV right on the model, use the "follow active quads" option if you experience this problem because it will use the adjacent faces to calculate the coordination of the UV, and make a straight UV projection. But first, you should create a seam of one of the edges just like GraphicsKid said.