All your comments are welcome!
Green Rust:
Brown Rust:
Glassy:
i like the green rust version most. But I have
a question: how did you make the brown rust?
Glassy is the best IMHO.
The other ones make the beetle look very flat and 2 dimensional, which isn’t a good thing 
shh! m@dcow i’m trying to sabotage him! 
nah just kidding. seriously though i think the green rust looks better. the glassy one just seems wierd, especially with the brown legs.
but really, you did a great job MoreK. and i hate you for that! 
I like how you could see a sort-of inner skelliton in the glassy one, but the legs might look better a difforent color – blue-grey maybe?
Thanks for your comments! And keep them coming!
a question: how did you make the brown rust?
Well, that was pretty easy:
- Created an image texture and loaded an image of rust
- Craated second texture type “Stucci”. Selected “Hard Noice” and reduced noice size to somewhere 0.050 or similar (you may need to tune it)
- In a material screen removed “Col” and selected “Nor” in right buttons. This made the new material act as a bump map –> nice coarse surface. Again you may tune the bump map with “Nor” slider at bottom right in material screen
In the green rust -version I also have bump map, but it was created from the original rust image –> converted it to grayscale picture and added some contrast. Then used it as a second texture with “Nor” same way as in brown rust version.
You’ve got a great dragon there too, you got all chances to win. I have already gave up thinking that I could win the contest, you guys are too good! I just do my best and be proud to be in such a talented company.
its looking good, i like the glass the best cause i love seeing inside =D it need some shine though, looks like plastic a lil
ooo i dunno, i love the green rust too
yes, i choose green =D
Go for the glass. Give it a subtle refl map.