Wings 3D is only a modeller and works well with Carrara. Its rendering features are really basic although it does support exteral render engines to a limited extent (yafray and pov-ray) but the support does seem a bit basic. I personally love Wings3D as a modeller. After understanding it, it is like modelling with clay because you have so much control over your mesh. and selecting things then manipulating is so easy. Browse the wings forum gallery to see what is there http://pub161.ezboard.com/fnendowingsmiraifrm17 but do remember that these images were not rendered in wings. It beats the sds modeller in Carrara hands down because it is so easy to pan round,select edit things,move things in odd directions,assign uv's and more. Blender is will at some point integrate the Yafray renderer into it which will give it some really nice rendering capabilities. At the moment there is a way of exporting to Yafray but I dont know much about it. There is some nice work out of Blender but not much (as far as I have seen). I did consider it at a point but I found it just to odd and different to what I was used to. Opening a file had me stumped! From what I hear it takes a while to get the good stuff out of blender cause it is hard to learn. I suggest trying both, wings wont make sense for a while cause it is a new way of working but I guess you will have to judge both of them by the results you see and how you feel about them.. In theory Wings+Blender+Yafray could replace Carrara but I think it would be a bit difficult to work with cause that is often the nature of free software but I could be wrong. I heard that some people really like it. For me I really like Carrara. Although the uv mapper does suck! you will probably end up buying another one but these are quite cheap. Hey Pixelmouse can you tell me about Ts6? I was considering getting it before I got Carrara. What is the interface like when you get used to it and what is the verdict in general. The modelling tools look good.