Sketchup antics

So I've been fiddling with Google Sketchup on and off, studying the tutorials on youtube and practicing with the various tools... Here's a fighter of some sort:





I'm searching for ways to integrate it with my illustration style. Ultimately I'd like to be able to work out vehicles and backgrounds for comic book panels with it. Getting there bit by bit...

Here's a building I put together for Thought Faucet, for the daily topic "Skyscraper":



Built it in Sketchup, exported it as a TIFF and played with it in Illustrator and Photoshop. Pretty quick process, all around.