Awesome thread guys! So I made the model from Luxxeon tutorial, then tried doing what that Bryce tutorial was doing in Blender. Didn't come out as good as Lobo's render, but it's a start. I think my problem is lack of knowledge on how to use the array modifier properly. But it's a cool effect I thought. I'm using the Cycels renderer here, and took a snapshot of the viewport like Luxxeon did above.

Still a long way to go, but I'll play around with array more.