Thanks alot for that link, Lisa. I'm very much a newbie to texturing. After toying around with only modelling maya for a couple of months, I feel it's time to move on and add a touch of character to the bland 'grey' default my models currently all are.

I am quite happy at dragging a 'blinn' adding a colour then assigning to the object, though this feels somewhat amateur-ish, and surely can only add so much basic effect to the model.

There appears to be, [from my point of view] a huge grey area in the step I've said above, to say, 'wrapping' textures around a coke bottle for example. including reflections etc. I don't mind learning extreme basics if it can take me, in time, to the high level which I have witnessed at SM.

Any more help you can offer would be much appreciated.