>> Thanks Brian. Been dying to get into rendering! Jealous of stuff like Danny and Grendels work!

BurrMan,

It's not so hard - but very time consuming. You tweak and render and tweak and render and....yes, more tweak and render. But I find it very satisfying to see the end result.

Carrara has a great procedural shading system, especially if you add some of the Digital Carvers plugins. That's why I don't know anything about UV mapping :-)