maclean: thanks for the reply, I have Lightwave (yes, I know, I need to spend 3 months in the "Model, Surface & Light" book, but I'm very short time-wise so use it mostly for rendering and reworking stuff.

Anyway, I really don't want anyone to do it for me (got to start sometime) but I've tried morphing various hats and the brims fall apart. Here's what I want to model