Aha! I may have something here. I imported a greyscale pic of snowflake, made it into a lattice, flattened it then multireplicated it 20 times and offset it by 2. This let a bit of a gap so I just grouped the first 20, then duplicated them again and moved it a bit to fill the gaps. Set the material to silver, up the ambiance a bt and there ye go. This has possibilites! Thanks for your help, guys!