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I just never felt comfortable with the turntable

That's strange. Because after I set blender to the turntable mode, the view controls feels just like Wings3D now. Sometimes the view gets off-centered, but all you need to do is press Shift+C then C to center the cursor and set the camera to revolve around the cursor's current position (after you move the cursor the view keeps revolving around that point. But maybe I'm familiar with blender's views because I happened to favor Wings3D's "blender" style rotation the best, although I didn't know what blender was at the time.

the fact is...Wings3d has an outstanding modeling power in its main "use philosophy", is not got till you got into it very seriously as your only modeler during many months...

In my opinion, Blender is much more powerful than Wings3D, as far as modeling is concerned. In Wings3D, I have to right click, click move, click x, then move the mouse to move an item along the X axis. The same thing has to be repeated if I want to "tweak" the verts, which makes this a slow and difficult process. Strangely, in the >3 years I have been using Wings3D, I have never found any "magnet" option that you say is similar to blender's vertex "falloff" adjustment. I guess I don't know as much about Wings3D as I thought I did.

One diference of feeling ok(= able to model anything accuracy) and feeling in heaven is what makes me use Wings for every model. To each his glove ;)

Exactly. To you, you fell ok using Blender but feel in heaven using Wings3D. I feel in heaven when I use Blender (for whatever reasons that may be), but feel just OK in Wings3D.

That's why everyone should not just try a few modelers when beginning 3D modeling. They should try as many modelers as possible to see what best fits their style.

Anyway, here's some pics of some of my new models I made in blender in the past 3 days:


F-86 Fighter Jet
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=52731


Fictional Spacecraft
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=52733


XG100 Gatling Pistol (Fictional)
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=52734