Lots of Texturing Help...

Jono helped me a lot with what you can do in maya when it comes to textures, looking at the different channels you can plug images into. Here are a few of the images from these experiments:

Original:

Diffuse:

Playing with inner glows:

Putting it in the scene:

A little bit deformed:

There's still lots to do but at least I can be getting on with something now. Expect more experiments to come! :D