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Well, Lightwave and Maya (Maya particularly) are professional-grade modeling programs. I don't have that kinda money...

I actually use Wings 3d, 'cause it's free...and fairly easy.

I use Blender mainly for 2 things; making greebles and nurnies (fiddly bits on models), and converting file formats (dxf to obj, etc).

Blender is a free open-source modeling program. It's designed by committee, and has about 20 menus, sub-menus, etc. It works best with keyboard commands (as I understand it). It's a sort of 'swiss-army-knife' approach to modeling; it does modeling, animation, texture mapping, game pieces, and on and on...

Still, if you want to try it, go to Blender dot org.

Can you use nif files with wings 3D?

I used to like creating 3D "cities" using an add-on for Doom II. Anyone remember Doom II back in the days of DOS?
It was also fun to put assorted monsters, keys, etc. I made some really challenging games back then for the amusement of friends and work colleagues. I've still got all the games they still run in DOS mode on XP. Not tried them on Vista.

I think I mentioned it to you. Try it, it's very very easy, in fact yesterday I was using it to make a 3d beveled star, damn 3dsmax frustrated me, so I fired up Sketchup and had it done in minutes (: