I was looking at Tamriel's map, and considered modeling a few High Rock (British-themed) buildings, as a modder's resource, in hopes of someone stepping up and begin working with me on a fraction of High Rock's landscape (my eyes are fixed on Farrun at the moment).
So, apart from the neccessary lore hunt, to create the area as accurately as possible, I was unsuccessful in finding a tutorial that would outline the proper way of modeling such large statics as houses, or fortifications, for TES import.
I remember Morrowind and Oblivion having trouble with pieces, whose dimensions were not multiples of 8 (16, 32, 512, 2048 etc). I don't know what size units to use inside 3ds max, nor what the optimal size for texture maps is. I'm sure there's a crowd of tips on correct asset creation.
I'm not looking to avoid experimentation, in fact I'm all for it, but small bits of info like these would give me a nice headstart and less of a headache. If anyone knows of any related tutorials, or has experience on the field, please do contact me.

Import an actor into 3ds max, this you can use as scale unit for building your house, as textures i would start with power of two 2048x2048, you can scale them down later if needed ...


Edit: Im working on my own custom houses:
http://i49.tinypic.com/1s9s.jpg

Got a little crazy with NifSkope and BSAOpt, but I'm very happy to say it's working perfect. I like that building a lot, my only objection being that it looks too symmetrical. I've been looking at these for inspiration, they might interest you as well: http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/d/daveGraffamModels/paperModelsTerrain/fantasy
I think that guy has some seriously interesting ideas concerning forms and colors.