Great video!  I agree with Lobo, this technique is 10x easier than that Wings tutorial I watched.  Wings is great, but you always have to model with solid objects, so creating models there seems to restrict you to a certain way of doing things all the time.  Blender is more like the advanced expensive software like 3dsmax, you can start out with a single polygon if you wanted to, or with lines, or solid objects.  There's a lot more ways to go about creating stuff, and I like that.