How come when I apply a material...

[SPARK]

How come when I apply a material it doesn't actually look like wood...It is just brown where I applied it...Like I applied this texture:



And this is what the gun looks like:
(The brown is where I put thhe material


I don't know how to fix this...Please help.

[babelfish]

UVW map it or "tile" it.
Hopefully that will work,
other than that, I don't know