What I didn't say in my original post is that I have to actually teach 3D modelling to novice students. I teach programming and I have been asked to look at Games Design. This is why I have been busy asking loads of questions etc etc. I DO like Blender in some ways, but I think teaching it would be tricky. I mean those menus at the bottom look quite intimidating and the whole interface is something that is not too quick to aquire. By contrast, I have very quickly picked up how to use Wings3D. We will use Blender, but not initially. The students will be actually be given a choice. Initial teaching could be with Wings3D, its so easy to use. I have contacted Calagari (Truespace folks) to see if we could use Truespace 7 on college PCs. Again, we could use several packages. The students will not become pro-modellers but they do need to be able to build models and animate them in a game.

Thanks