Thanks Teyon for this link! It is very instructive to see what can be done with very low polygon count and clever textures and no space wasted UV maps! Makes me think things quite differently now.

Thanks! I had plenty of questions and this wonderful series of tutorials will answer a bunch of them. I saved them as .pdf and they will be very handy.

Amazing and clever. Thanks!

Yep thanks all for your comments! Most instructive :)