matbev, it is a good feeling to be done, isn't it? Your beams look great. I will post your images later today. I have changed the background by giving it a gradient. If you don't like it, let me know and can change it back to the original grey. Thanks for providing the money shot(s)!
oh too right splat21 I was so happy to have finished it. to be honest I dont want to look at wood beams ever again hahahaha.
that sounds amazing, and sounds alot better than the grey. I'm not going to lie but I didnt have a clue of how I could make it ok better so what you've got sounds great. thank you.
You finished so strong matbev! Your beams look amazing in the assembly:
They were to lightly colored in the texture by itself so I dropped the whole thing down in value by 40%. Then I added a slight randomization of value and saturation after that.
The only remaining issue is that some of the boards don't reach far enough, leaving unsightly gaps:
If you could do one more pass of the whole structure to fill these gaps that'd be amazing. Please open your Mastered file and make the changes there, just elongating the problematic boards. Save that and it will update cleanly.
Other than that you're done! Thanks so much for joining Collab2021. You've been a pleasure to work with 🤝
Thank you so much @theluthier. Its been such a great challenge and I've really enjoyed the time I've been working on it. Just wish I had more time in April to do more work on it but still I think its a passable beam.
There is so much that could be improved on it but I'm very happy with what I've achieved. I think I'm going to practice a lot more sculpting in the future and improve more.
I think what you have done on the texturing side is a good shout. it does help so much more to have that variation of the wood. thanks for doing that.
aaaah I'm annoyed that I forgot to make those beams the right length. I could have sworn I had done it hahaha.
I have gone in and fixed those beams in my master file now, so that should be all uploaded on the drive for you.
Thank you so much for the opportunity to work on this. its been great fun and its been great working with you, 
blanchsb, and everyone else in the Collab. Cant wait to see what the next one that comes up is