@Camus:
Well MS's explosions were one of the main sources of reference and inspiration for that, yes - defnately some of the best explosions i.m.o. Never quite finished it though and it lacks at the end because that was done just before I came over to China. I don't even have access to my psd's so will have to do most of the graphics from scratch (if I want to finish the project from here) or try and fill in blanks from the various gif frames I can capture - I only managed to get copies of the gif animations I had put on my dev wiki which I was able to access from here for a while. Still I'm glad you made the reference as it means I must have emulated it well enough.
-Z-