I can't help you too much with the props since I am not much of a modeller. The Zygote Costume CD is great. Poserworld is also good. As far as most of my textures flushing at the compliment they are basically one or two leather textures that I play with. Just a simple 420 pixel square. I use photoshop to mess with most of them. Basically I have a warn leather base and a not so worn leather. And one or two cloth grains. Othere than that it is mostly putting them together, drawing on top and mapping them. Same as anything else. Good luck