Originally Posted by psycoderek

Hi Peter, welcome to the house of fun. My suggestion for model building would be Blender. it is a free aplication and is nearly as good as maya and 3dmax and texturing is definitely possible using photoshop or similar. i use it and have fun with it. Bryce modelling is a little limited. Check the links section here for a link to the blender foundation. I recoment version 2.47 as 2.48 has a tendancy to crash when using bmp files.