I did this same render in Lightwave, but I have been learing Maya and Mental Ray and I wanted to try and recreate something I did in Lightwave.

I modeled the Mustang in Lightwave but I've been learning lighting and texturing in Maya and thought it was a good place to start.

I'm very happy with the result as this is my first attempt at shading and lighting with Mental Ray.

I find many things are very similar in Maya compared to Lightwave and others are very very different... but in the end it all seems like the same stuff... points, polys, lights etc.

Anyway I figured I'd post this up since I spent the last couple weeks working on it

Hope you like it!