Oh, Dialyn, I wasn't directing my statements at you. I really don't know who was on the throne in 1897. I think Victoria was already buried by then. It may be more accurately be referred to as the Edwardian Era. Shoot, I can't even remember most of the American presidents, let alone other political powers. Anyway, thanks for the compliments. It's a simple Poser 4 rendering with one "fill" light without shadows and another with shadows enabled projected from below. I used the hag texture from the V3 zombie/hag set and bumped up the specularity to produce a wt effect. For the eyes I simply applied a black abse color to the cornea and eye-white. I used Aiko with the Kioki morphs because she already has large eyes. I suspected I could scale them larger with less trouble than Victoria 3 (who has yet to be be "blessed" by Capsces). I turned the rest of the body parts "off" so they wouldn't show. Here's a bit of trivia. O'Bannon and H.R. Giger were not the first to depict an "inner mouth" on a space alien. Wells' Martians were outright vampiric! They possessed a "pipette" they extruded from their mouths and pierced the arteries of human victims. They drained blood and pumped it directly into their own circulatory systems. Why? They did not possess a digestive system of their own. As the Martians mutated into essentially brains with tentacles, various Parts of their bodies atrophied over the eons. The Martians normally drained a fellow species as a matter of survival. Wells set the standard in so many areas! Sincerely, Bill

Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!