Please can somebody please post a tutorial on how to create new ships using SoftImage?

I barely know where to start with SoftImage and the tutorial that comes with the forge tools doesn't exactly cover anything I need.

So far I have imported a sketchup ship into it to shortcut since i know what i'm doing with sketchup. Textures are my main problem right now, but a proper in depth tutorial for creating ships, giving them colour and the rest of it would be greatly appreciated.