Thank you SFGfx. I'm modeling this in Wings simply because that is the modeling app that I have the most experience with. I haven't purchased Hex2 yet, but I plan to. I guess I've been waiting for the initial rush to die down before I tried to D/L it. Well, that and I plan to also purchase a higher-end graphics card and more memory so my computer can handle it, LOL. I can recommend this object as a modeling excercise. It looks deceptively simple, but it was challenging, and best of all fun to do.
Well, I think I'm finished with this Pam. I'll send you the .obj ZIP, if you like. It has 36,490 polys, 5 material/object groups, and weighs in at 1.55MB in standard ZIP format.