Well, drac, I am with you on the unsmoothed model thing. I made my third wings model ever earlier this evening. Just a simple column with insets. It has 7K polys. Because I am a smoothing freak.

What I did do, though, was smooth only PARTS of the model. I imported it into Bryce, looked at the areas that were polygonal, then smoothed those. Sure, some verts weren't connected to other verts, but it still LOOKS ok. At least, to me.