with polygons and textures
its no different to model than anything else, just make sure you have enough polies to make repeated textures look good, and add any odd details you want.
you can use Vertex shading to bake in some shadows (most game engines will support this, i think, some of the newer ones allow dynamic lighting, so no need for baking).
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