This is based on a drawing I did for GDW about thirty years ago.
I am not using Cycles because my poor little one-lung graphic card cannot handle it.
You don’t have to have Cycles in order to render something. Some people still uses the Blender Internal Render System.
Well, yes, otherwise I could not have done the renders I’ve attached in this thread.
I just noticed that a lot of the works in progress in this forum proudly state they are using Cycles, so I felt left out.