Hi!!, you are all right!!, the tools dont do the master, and its true those are expensive tools 3dsmax and photoshop are from a friend of mine who works in an (industrial printer) graphics designer for illustrations, I only own silo and 3dcoat, and I have been with blender in head so many time I know its a really very complete software face to face to Maya or 3dsmax or Lightwave, but its interface is really annoying for me, is like those one who learnt C++, Java is weird and some prefers C# even when both languages are similars.

And yes I use The gimp, even Inkscape (really useful), Wings3d, thanks for Crits I still haven´t good skills in modelling but I think for casual games or even a little more complex games those models are ok, I have seen worst models in Squid for $50 Us dls.