I was 90% sure that this was a satirical series, but the 10% doubt was enough to make me post a couple of 'fishing' responses. Of course, what I think isn't important, but I'm kind of relieved that you don't sympathise with the 'Sea Patrol'. Maybe the seed of doubt was planted by a picture I have somewhere of a certain A. Appleyard at the A.A.C. dressed in not entirely disimilar attire to the 'blue mans' in these images. (offstage sounds of blackmail plot hatching, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh...) Some of the smoothing operations in 3DStudioMax take a long time too, so Bryce isn't all alone in this respect. Actually, I'm not sure it takes any longer to smooth at 80deg than it does at 20. I've never timed it though. Like you, I'm usually off reading War and Peace or something.