Hey Jayko, thanks buddy, and thankyou too Wantija, you have both made me rethink my creative reporting process, I speak of my current picture taking talents of course. I'm heading off to Rona in the morning to get some electrical supplies to do a small job for a good friend tomorrow. I'll be picking up some photo backgrounds in the form of bristle board as well. Btw, what is a desk lap? Never heard of such a thing.
I'll share something else interesting, while reading your post, I decided to have another look at your profile here. I then decided to check out your MLN page, havn't got there yet. When I logged onto Lego, I decided to do a little surfing first. First I checked out the Gallery to see if my username still brings up all my creations, it does.
I then checked out this http://creator.lego.com/en-us/Designers/Default.aspx which I found kinda cool, seeing the similarities with my own model, first time I ever saw this, makes me thing like my calling may be at hand soon.
Thanks again everyone, and to all, I made this mech to promote Blade's contest and perhaps to get a few more entries, so that the spirit of competition remains alive in MLNO. A desk lamp is simply a small light that sits on a desk, or table. Here are a bunch of different types available from amazon
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=1063292, but they should be available from any home improvement store.