OK... so thats that.. im now going to suspend work on this until i get back to cyprus on the 15th, my temp laptop is struggling to manage the 2048 textures whilst running max9, it hangs and crashes all the time, its probably due to the fact it only has 512mb ram and 64mb of that is shared with the video card, so you can see my dilemma..
when i get back on the 15th, i'll be reuinited with my alienware, and my wacom.. so work will flow, i have included some final wips until the 15th, and then i willcontinue.
in the meantime i might blow the dust off 3ds max 4 and photopshop 6, and work on something small.