Cybermonk: I am so far having trouble getting Wings3d to install. Will it not run under XP? Or maybe I just had a corrupted download or something ... Tomsde: I've heard good things about the book. Think I'll put that off a little bit though. It may be a while before I get around to doing much boning, but thanks for mentioning it. Again, if anyone has used more than one of these modeling packages enough to know the pros and cons when comparing features and such, I'd appreciate your further comments. Anyway, thanks to everyone for all the advice.