Thanks again everyone, for all the good advice. I've just been playing with that cyclotron gizmo from Daz, and here's a first draft of my first effort. Crits welcome (her pose is a bit stiff, isn't it?). I also spent an hour or two messing around with my freebie copy of Cinema4D, and I can honestly say that, even just a few hours, I produced results that were absolutely... appalling! I can see the learning curve for Cinema 4D will be quite steep! Thanks again, everyone. John