hello everyone,
there has been an interesting quasi-challenge posted in a thread on SketchUcation forums to try to recreate so-called Blingcrete material in VRay for SketchUp.
the material is essentially concrete with small glass beads, which gives it interesting properties…
reference images can be found through Google Image Search or seen in the other forum’s thread; for quick reference i’m posting this image:
other resources are this image and this page with images.
so far my try looks like this
and the material settings can be found here.
if you could give me any tips on how to achieve this material, i will be thankful 
i’m working with SketchUp and Vray, but any method/workflow tip would be useful, as i think the methods are fairly portable from one modelling/rendering program to the other.