oops that was supposed to be in your rendering thread.. silly me.. me and my stoopid mutliple windows..
about this question:

why dont you goto boris3d.com/tutorials,, have loads of em here

i want to tell you one thing,, all the things you create are done with basic stuff,, imagine em like lego blocks,,, just plain blocks, but if you arrange em right,, they look fantasitc...

all the "high level" things will come to you automaticallly, just keep praticing the techniques... nurbs, curves, low poly, quad modelling,, etc