I know what you've been going through. You've been busy for hours learning how to put a rusty fence together and carefully placing it all around your level. You then show it to your nearest and dearest and they say, "Um... that's nice dear," or "Why does it look so rusty? Should it be rusty?," and you go from feeling ecstatic at your achievement, to feeling like a loser in the space of a few minutes.
The reason you don't get the "Oohs" and "Aahs" right away is because people are used to seeing completed games—the ones that took the team of hundreds of people a few years to complete. Compare what you can do now with what you could do before, and you're safe in your own knowledge of what you have achieved. Always remember—all those games are made up of individual efforts, like yours, by individuals, like you.
There is, however, a place for showing off, and that place is here at the end of our book. Now that your skills are up to it, you're going to make something that people not "in the know" can be immediately impressed by. A posh car!
Because a majority of us don't have sculpting skills, our car is going to be made by applying logical steps and techniques. It will, therefore, only be as good as the plans and photos we base it on, and because I don't expect you to be a sculptor, we're going to cheat once more and use the image modeling techniques SketchUp is so good at. Only this time, we will add line drawings to our photo textures in combination.
Access http://www.the-blueprints.com. Sign up for a free account and have a good look around. See anything you like? Any of these cars can be yours when you learn the techniques in this chapter!