One of the crits I got about my last picture, and one I totally agree with, was that the debris looks a little regular. I thought about this and short of modelling a ton of extra stuff, I couldn't think of a way around it. Then I thought I'd try and actually explode the ship itself. So I replicated the decking that I had modelled and then exploded that, changed the speed, gravity and size of chunks and ended up with this, which I hope is a little better. The main image is just after thefirst of the small pictures. The other two are after it. The good thing about this explosion method, is that it would animate more realistically. Also, I haven't done any postwork on this. The light from the explosion, the shadows in the cloud, everything really, is just straight from Carrara. Maybe I'll try an animation next. Thanks for your comments, advice and time. Larger version of the bottom images are here here and here