I draw worst than I spell, and trying it on a computer only magnifies hte situation and allows me to turn out garbage at a much higher rate!
Well, I use xfig to draw some CAD type drawin's like I did for my loggin' disconnects:
http://www.the-gauge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7160&perpage=5&pagenumber=6
I've also turned photo's into walls. These bricks began as 4 or 5 photo's of old brick used on a neighbors garage. Cut, psted randomly, sized and printed out on cardstock:
I used the same technique to turn the front siding in this photo:
into sidng for the model:
And using a similar technique, I scanned the models own siding:
Then I converted the color (RBG) image to monnochrome, then back to RGB, resulting in a black and white image that was capable of color. Then I skewed the color balance unitl I had what I thought was representative of dirty, old, unpainted, interior wood: