Some of the detail is lost in this 800x600, but you get a decent idea...



You can view a larger vrs for better detail HERE

Anyway I didnt want my render to fill the screen or desktop, I kinda want it framed and 'held in place' ... the text seemed to naturally just want to sit there but not sure if thats the best place. As I stated this is only half done - I've blacked out the area I'm working on and I need to redo some of the rusted framing lines - I like the ultra smooth to rough border this gives which I thought helped frame it. But any comments, more so suggestions what to try would be good to hear at this stage.

If anyone is interested, this was a 5 min task done in 3DS Max, using Glass material with Brazil Render instead of the default, there's about 35 omni lights at various settings and hues of red thru white within the mesh and and a few far from it to get the odd sense of depth I wanted. Explosed and extruded the objects that I bundled together, mesh smoothed the heap, moved the cam in to frame the scene properly then post-worked the result in PS - which further took about 20mins just because I couldn't decide the the edging effect.

feedback and opinions will be appreciated