There is no trick to it really. Im still an absolute beginner when it comes to vray, so very few vray specific shaders were used. Most of the shaders were standard scanline blinns.
I just tweaked and tweaked til it looked the way it did. A happy accident of sorts :-)
Not at all, I have been having to fend for myself
for the most part. Still have long ways to go. I work for an architectural firm located in Alabama, USA.
Your model came out great by the way. On Saturday I crashed twice and part of my work was lost and my wife was already pissed at me for spending so much time on this the deadline was goinnto be blown. Yes, I will be doing more of these chalenges because I got alot of feed back from great members like you. I will finish her this week.