I go to do some work on a project that I hadn't touched in a few weeks because of schoolwork, and find that like half my model files are corrupted- destroying more than a few days' work

The files that MED can still open have their textures messed up, which is easy to fix since I have the original texture files on hand. This lead me to conclude that theres a possibility the animations, model, and skin mapping might be intact in the file.

Does anybody know of a way I could recover my models?

i think there has to be some .bak files. rename them to .mdl. Maybe that will help.

Yes, but this *.bak file is only from the last save. Make much Backups of your work...

But i think its better to have an old model than to have no model

Keeping backups is the best solution to protecting your data. It's better to be safe than sorry.

That is sooooo true. I used to be way more paranoid about this- then got lazy

Yay! Of the two models that had been totally unopenable one of them was just fine in the bak version. Thanks!

I'm working on converter for GS and maybe I've an idea to reproduce your models, can you send me the file at info[at]udytzkey.info, then I'll take a look?

Sure thing- I've got this one last model I couldn't recover so I had replaced it with a reskin of a similar enemy but it'd be neat to get back the original.

The texture is to 90% ok, but many uv's, edges, polys, vertices are in wrong position and the whole animation is missing.
However, some parts of the model can be see.
Hope, I could help you.