Depends on the quality of the textures I'd say. Some really suck. Some are really good, and being a texturer myself, I can tell you for a solid fact that texturing takes longer than modeling. Good texturing, that is ;o).

Seems no one gives a rat's ass about the texturers. It's no one's fault but the site for allowing so many crap texture sets to hit the market place. Flood fills for instance, make me crazy. There's just too much of that crap. The trick is, identifying the good texture artists. They are, IMVHO, worth the price. After all, you do get what you pay for.

One more thing to remember is that while a model might have just the mesh and a basic texture, texture packs commonly have three or more sets. If it's a good texturer, who pays a lot of attention to detail, that's a helluva lot of work. I'm just sayin' ;o).

Laurie