Those are all good ideas, having a gallery at least will be a big improvement, the finished work section here doesn't seem to get a lot of traffic so stuff is kinda hidden there and theres one thread for 2D stuff. I don't know how you'll go about organizing the site/ merging the data bases, I dunno if it'll be software specific forums or everything all smushed into one ( I've seen what can happen in the latter case, there'll be a minority and a majority, and the minority's software specific issues and questions will pretty much go unanswered til they just trickle off and go elsewhere).