n.p.
I love always good reports, even if the Problem already solved. And your report is a very good and usefull report.
Now, I know what effect you try to emulate ... and I can try to implement such a effect.
About the .scene file:
Even if you just loaded the models up without changing anything ... the .scene file contains much more informations which are helpfull to reproduce the issue.
For example:
Shader model used by your video card,
which Options are toggled to ON (force always shader 3 ... enable metallic maps ...),
screen Resolution,
...