Sounds like a great idea. And for those newbie (me), I will hopefully be learning a few things along the way. I would like to see it without any outside rendering though and it is basically for selfish reasons.
It would be interesting also to see about doing a model with just the OOTB (out of the box) SketchUp - no rubies. THAT would be prove some challenges and thinking outside the box, per se.
Either way - I'm in!
My thoughts only.
Rick