Another test/draft render of my latest progress. I enabled iray, set-up an hdri enviroment, used one large mental ray photometric area light, and let it render for ~ 15 minutes;

Link to full-sized render.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/477599/RoboR...spective03.png

Thank You so much for extending the deadline :-D !!!

I've still got a lot to work on; mirroring over, fixing mistakes, adding details, creating a lighting set / attempting to make a nice composition, toning in photoshop, etc. <-- if I even get to any of that 8^D .