Haha I try to lock myself in a dark room with no forms of reference or inspiration so that anything I come up with can be completely original...of course until it goes outside that room.

This model is looking really great and have been watching quietly for some time In quiet appreciation that is and not some weird stalking sort of way...

Also good to read the occlusion info as I also didn't know how to perform that effect without FinalGather or the like. But looking at that method that Tweetytunes suggested, I think it is so white because it is meant as a render pass so it basically isn't any good for whole renders. It would be like rendering one layer.