Hoi David, I posted my latest picture' "Starfury Squadron" a couple of days ago. The friends I've made since coming to this site have had a look and commented as they usually do. The next comment comes from you, actually 3 questions as to whether I made the ships myself, how big the file size was and how long it took to render the image. I fired off an instant message to you with the imformation. A day later, after no thanks, nada, I sent another instant message to you asking if the information had helped you, still no response. I then thought I'd better check you out to see if I could work out the reason behind the questions by looking at your gallery. Low and behold I find spacships, spaceships and more spaceships!!!!!! Great stuff, lots of detail in the models. Now as to depicting what a spaceship would look like up there, who's to say what they really look like? We go by a few pictures taken from the ships already launched and by the Hubble Space Telescope to define our ideas on what things look like in space. There'd be a handfull of people that would actually know from experience, the rest of us have to plod along using our imagination. I do know what you mean when you say that there are some who will post a picture of a model done by someone else, put abit of colour in it, and its regarded as a masterpiece. The work involved to make models like yours and mine is complex and time consuming. The Starfury took about 30 hours to make, the Babylon 5 took about 80 hours to make. My most complex model to date, what I have called the Explorer Ship, has over 7000 Bryce primitives in it. Dont remember how long it took to make now, it went through about 30 transformations to get the final model. You and I can use Bryce to make the models in our Imagination. Some people either cant, wont or dont use Bryce to model. Some people still annoy me with regards to their attitude towards Bryce as a modeller, one in fact told me in chat one night that Bryce was a "rudimentary modeller" at best. That got me so annoyed, I posted a picture, "USS Rudimentary", just to show what the metaballs can do. Being the first ship I made with the metaballs,it is basic compared to what I've learnt to make with them now. I too would love to go into space. I've been a fan of Sci-fi for over 30 years. I've got a collection of over 500 books that have been reread over and over. The artwork on the covers is something that has always inspired me, I've thought for years it would be great to be able to create those types of images myself. Most of my spaceships have been made as both a challenge to myself, to see if I could actually make them, and as a tribute to the people who brought them to life. With that in mind, they need to be made with textures and mats as close to the originals as possible. Some of the textures and mats I've made myself, some I've got from other places. With the right textures and colours, the models come to life, I can look at the scene and believe for a time that its real. To sum this all up, IMHO, your models are technically brilliant. Unfortunately, I have been wont to pass over them because they simple dont catch my eye. If you were to apply metalic textures and mats to them, and yes, added abit more colour, they would come alive to not only myself, but alot more people. Most of the folks either dont care or dont want to know how to build models such as yours and mine. Dont worry about the people not commenting. Do the images for yourself,if comments come, think of it as an extra buzz. You'll go crazy trying to please all of the people, just please yourself. Regards, fozzibear.