Thanks all...@Dune...I agree as always but it's gonna have to wait for the Corsair to be up and running...praying for cash as my tech pal who built my machine for me has gone walkabout on me and repair is gonna bite into the cash I have been saving to upgrade my maintenance.
@ Jordan, me too on the shadows.
But like Oshyan, I still prefer the first non path version as it's truer in spirit to the picture I saw that inspired the render. It's been a blast tweaking this but on to other stuff now.