Hi Wild77. I wrote you an overly longish answer over in the TS Forum, but also see your question posed here. Like you, I am a significant fan of Vue. Vue4, Vue Pro and TS are my most often used programs. If it helps any, I've tried a lot of programs out in the year and half I've been modelling professionally, but the four things I consider my best, most solid investments are Truespace (6.6), Vue (both versions), and Deep Exploration. If you go purchase a little $35 copy of Hypersnap (the bread-and-butter utility you can't do without), and maybe an old - inexpensive copy of Photoshop or CorelDraw for that occasional tricky texture-building problem), you've got it all. Incidentally, Vue actually makes a superb render-er for Truespace.