Quote - to make something like that you'd create the UV sphere, delete ...

Cool, thank you. I posted that image over at BlenderArtists, and somebody suggested something similar. I'm going to play around with that concept tonight. I like Wings and I like Blender, and I expect I'll continue using both from time to time, but I work better if I can keep each project in one application.

Quote - I always get funky results with intrude.

The main problem I have with intrude is that it defaults to a distance of zero, which, if left alone, gives you a bunch of co-planar faces. A lot of rendering apps really, really hate that sometimes. I crashed Poser once or twice before I figured out that If I was going to use intrude, I really had to give it at least a small distance.

Thanks for the input!