Welcome baz. Nice seeing ya here.
Blender and Wings are a nice couple. Most of the time.

As for the materials. I suggest you sign on to Elysium.com and look up some of Greybeards tutorials. The one he did on LCSM is quite good. I hope it will answer most of your questions.

As for selecting. I think you can select one vert for each section youve marked off and then hit Ctrl+L and it will select the whole section for ya.

On the materials and groups out of wings. In wings Go to you Export Options and deselect the "One Group Per Material". see if that helps.

Message edited on: 04/27/2005 06:44