Go to www.eyeball-design.com and check out some of their tutorials - you'll get some great ideas for things you can do. Been looking for a tutorial on how to do a convincing metal that's the type that looks like fairly large chunks of lighter and darker metal like it's a really chunky metal version of particla-board - the name/type is escaping me right now. It'll come to me around 3am, I'll wake up in a sweat, crying out into the night - "It's called ---!!" Then my wife will beat me with a heavy blunt object - probably one of my cats. I'll keep you posted - as with my sure-fire medical bills to follow. -Lew ;-)