Creating model icons! Post your models here, get icons :)

[Struggleton!]

What's your best advice on creating icons? I'd like to learn how to as well.

Personally, I use 3DS Max to render out models, setting up lighting and different texture maps for the model. My best advice is to find a style of rendering you like and stick to it. And also figuring out what everything does. It's not something that can be necessarily taught or learned; you have to figure it out