slom: those tutorials are great, especially the joan of arc one... i mean WOW! thanks a lot

and regarding wings, I tried it but didn't like the controls very much. In blender, once you get past the difficult user interface, you find out that workflow is really fast. You don't need to click on any buttons because just about everything can be done with the keyboard.

After that I decided that the model was a bit to boring, so I went on to a crazyier path as you can see above.