*If you use the 'c' function, could you not export it, turn it into a 3ds in some other program 

*2 things... the export/import option works of course, but atm the imported mesh is not stable or in fact solid. It will not obey the 'Make solid when booleaned' command.

Whether or not that would negate the Bryce factor is perhaps a moot point. I'd rather not risk it.

Pipes.....mmmmmm.....giving away my secrets here......seriously, they come from a collection of 'enhanced prims' available for anyone in the free stuff and were resident on my hdd BEFORE I started the challenge. The 'u' shape and the 90degree bends I mean. The straight pipes are just Bryce cylinders.

BTW do you wanna see the whole wireframe?

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...