Those sinks look awesome Metric, I will have to check the lighting settings out, I'll let you know. I have found when I have just opened maxwell with just the default settings the rendered image will show the background correctly but the model appears full white. You can make out the object at first but it will get lighter every pass until it is just white. I am pretty sure that it has something to do with incorrect lighting as you were suggesting. How do you apply different background like wood and stone like I have seen on this thread, I have played around with the background menu but there are only a few to choose from. I have search around on the web but I cannot find the file type that it asks for if you select an image as a backround. Is there somewhere that you guy download them from? Last question, when I select the render time it shows up as the time that I specified first starting but then drops down from say 2 hours to 20 minutes, is this correct?