Greetings ladies and gentlemen,
I’ve been interested into Blender for quite some months, watched a few tutorials but never really got around to creating anything myself.
Following some whim this morning, I attempted to create a mushroom cloud.
It was supposed to be an atom-bomb-style cloud, but I was unable to combine the glowing bits with the grey, dense ash/dust clouds and thus ended up with a shroom mostly consisting of burning material.
The result certainly does not live up to the masterpieces around, but nevertheless I am proud I managed to finish a (albeit simple) project all on my own by using the knowledge I gained from tutorials,
such as creating the basic shape with a curve in combination with the screw modifier or accessing thee Z coordinate in the Node Editor 
Have a great day,
mampfer
