Well, I did a quicky render in Bryce with some slightly tweaked materials I had on hand, just to check how the mesh looked under lighting, and lit from within. I hope this looks like something you can use. I have the untextured .obj zipped and ready to send. It is 1.86mb, so I could even send it to you via email. Now, I hopefully get to kick back and see what Shinyary, Rayraz, and Cyba-Storm come up with.