keep meaning to have another look at wings always hearing good things about it lol it was one of my first ;-) .Blender is pretty good not only for modeling but has lots of tricks and now bmesh is in trunk the modeling is even easier then hex but before you go paying for a course check out tuts on youtube (vimo etc) there is 100's ,quality can vary a lot and specify 2.5 (+) or you'll get the older version(s)