> Quote - Modeling wise the blade looks a lot thinner on your saber, do you think I should change the one I did ? > > The reason my renders do not take as long is because I'm only rendering a prop while you are creating a piece of artwork.

This is purely opinion, but I would make it a little smaller.  I dowloaded and did a quick render with a character I had.  The light almost gets bigger than the handle.  I would think it would be a little smaller.  (...or if you know how to add morphs, you can add another morph for the blade thickness?  It may look better with a "bigger" character?)

In any case, this is purely opinion.  I am sure there are others who like it just the way it is!  It renders nice!

(A couple of more notes on my settings:  I seperate the blade light into a seperate light group, turn it down to like 0.2 or 0.1, and increase the main mesh light to 8 or so.  Then I "estimate settings")