Sorry about the confusion everyone. To make the textures, I've been using geometry to create the look that I want, then I render it out and save it as a jpeg. Then I applied the jpeg files as the textures.

I hope this is okay Mike? If not and you need to disqualify me, no hard feelings, I'll still complete the model. I just don't have a photo editing package that's capable of doing what I want. Don't get me wrong, they're good in other ways, in fact I just used artRage to create a simple design that someone saw and is now using for an album cover for a record they're producing. I'm going to give Gimp serious consideration but of course there's no time for this comp as the month is almost up.