===== From kingofmycastle@gmx.net: The battle is over, nothing is won. ===== From tek@evilsuperbrain.com: Pretty impressive for a first entry. Keep it up! ===== From tony@awmcs.net: An excellent first time entry! ===== From extrememarinerfan@home.com: The amount of fog detracts from the image. Also, the gate doesnt really look like a gate . . . ===== From ZenPsycho@yahoo.com: Very good composition, and an imaginative back story. I'm one of those people that dislikes stock models.. but I think you make up for that by arranging them well. the grass is repetitive though, you can see stripes through it.. I wouldn't expect moss to group together into huge blotches like that on a vertical face.. it'd be more likely to go between the bricks... the cannons are fairly good.. the castle itself is pretty standard... but good work on the composition! I suggest taking a closer look at actual stone walls with moss though. ===== From mark.wagner17@gte.net: Try randomizing the grass positions. Right now it forms straight rows that look very artificial. ===== From peter@table76.demon.co.uk: I like the CSG castle. ===== From delfeld@mailcity.com: A fortress is not an object that resembles a castle. . . they may be two different ideas. As a matter of fact, the notion of fortress _does_ come across. . . it is the skeleton: our fortress of life will meet an inevitable end.