Hi Hythshade;

Yep, I've done a few of those things already in my reworking so GMTA it seems. ;c)  I've made buster more of a focus instead of letting him be lost in the scene like I was originally intending.  I've only a few things left to do before I think it's done.  The cloudwork has been the hardest since I had to resort to volume textures to get the effect I wanted.  Nice tip on the textures though.  I may have to try that in the future.  As is I did a lot of customizing thanks to Diolma's suggestions and think I came up with some good stuff.  I'm doing a third full rendering to see if it works, then I have one accent left to add, and that's it, unless someone knows where I can get a good texture for japanese / chinese military banners.  I want to hang three of them off the tower to do something with the empty space there.

mdb