I use amapi 6.1. I model anything, but mostly stick to organics because inorganic objects are too easy and they bore me in a few minutes. I also find that I like imaginary characters more than realistic ones. Realism has been done to death and its gotten to the point where I dont care to look at realisitic models because its like going to the poser gallery (all images look the same). When modeling a character, I usually start with the chest and work out from there. No particular love for any method as I use box, construction curves, subD and single poly. Not too crazy about nurbs tho. BT