mmoir this has really come along nice. The ship is much better, a bit lifeless, but you said you were just starting it. The aqua duct(?) I would also like to see have more life to it also...since it runs thru there. Water just looks a bit flat. What did you use to model and texture/uv? Only carrara? These kind of projects are the kind I like to see real details of the process on because they cover so much and obviously take a lot of tweaking and reworking.Every step lighting, concept, setup, modeling and texturing is really worked thru and people can learn so much from this. Too many tutorials don't go into enough details to really help.Great work!

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.