what made me start with sketchup was the great scenes by svenart. i started on a small town scene of which are images in my gallery. it was the first thing i did and the textures should be better of course - most of them were 'out of the box' so to speak (the textures i mean). but i don't know anything else than this - rendering is a mistery to me. if i could contribute something i would be glad to do so however. (could learn something more on the way)

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"