Not really, you do nice work and I am just stating the facts.  :O)   In fact when I have more time I am going to read through the post here again for what I might have missed the first time, since I was mostly skimming at the time. 

As for Wings, not bad but limited.  I got Hex because it has some features that would make some things easier.  So I do want to learn.  But I tend to use multiple programs anyhow, because I even use Poser to model some things, since the magnets and morphing tool both make doing some things much easier than I can in Wings.  I was thinking when I was reading how you did the laces when it came to the part of having to adjust them, that magnets or the morphing tool might be easier there, but not sure if you can export mesh and import into Poser work there and then back into Hex the same way you can in Wings.  Some programs you have to freeze the mesh first before you export and then can not work with the same way after that - when you import it back in  - or so I have been told.