BANG!!!!...What a way for our hostess to go out, fantastic work, and you were more than welcome to the help sweetie, this has been a superb challenge Shari, even though it is not quite finished yet, you have set the bar a little higher with this puppy!

Piet, I have just sent Shari, my latest experiments, I feel sure she would be delighted to forward them to you :)

Edit: further note
Whilst it's ok to link to ones own gallery images pertaining to this excellent challenge here is my latest gallery post

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1838347

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees