Does anybody know of any high-res Cheydinhal retextures, other than Lougian's http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/44685/? or the textures included in Qarl's Texture Pack? Ideally, I'm looking for high res textures that resemble the vanilla look (which is why I've stayed away from Qarl's texture pack).

While Lougian's retexture is definitely high quality, it's a bit too greenish for me. I've always imagined Cheydinhal having a modern Tudor style architecture (you know, the white walls framed by brown/purplish wood), so I never anything wrong with Cheydinhal's original color scheme.

I found reference to an old retexture (about 2010) on another forum and I was wondering if perhaps anyone knew of it or where it could be found? It's an old link to tesnexus, but the file id no longer works. The link to that forum is: http://www.gamesas.com/cheydinhal-retexture-t65875.html

My apologies if this is the wrong place to be asking this question. It has been very long while since I last played Oblivion and I am finally returning to the mod scene after a number of years away (since 2009/10). Which brings me to my next question: are the Mod Detective threads still alive?

You're looking for http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/users/1394013/? retextures. Problem is you won't be able to find all of them because the author has left the modding scene plus he also pulled off all of his work from all public sites. Cheydinhal retexture was part of his Texture Pack v1 if I recall correctly and after that two more texture pack versions were made but as I've already said they're nowhere to be found in FULL except for one which is only a part and its located http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/files/file/1095-ampolx-textures/&=&_fromLogin=1 and http://tesalliance.org/forums/index.php?/profile/609-ampolx/content/&type=downloads_file