Wannabe a shipwright

Anybody have any good resources or suggestions for wannabe shipwrights? I found one or two tutorials but they seemed a tad Mickey-Mouse for any serious modeling.

In college and when I worked as a mechanical engineer I was a wiz at solid modeling. But it's been a few years since I did 3D modeling, and I really don't have the patience to ferret out all the necessary steps and the most useful tools to integrate a physical ship model into Freelancer. I have some pretty interesting ship ideas drawn up, but I have no desire to spend hours deciphering the routine for building it into a Freelancer-friendly file. (Besides, others have already figured all that out.:D)

I guess I am saying, I would like to try my hand at modeling ships, but I am too damned lazy and unmotivated to do any extensive legwork in learning the ropes.

...Or perhaps I am just averse to tedium.

If anyone has anything that will catapult me into the region of basic understanding, I would appreciate it.

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Originally posted by Raven19
Yes test all by your sefl theats how i learned it too do the basic things

Thanks, Raven19. Whatever works for you! [wink] But I may not be enough of a masochist. [7]

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Originally posted by Chrysocyon_ZERO
Try milkshape. It's a good starting point. But don't be lazy.

Thanks for the advice. If and when I get past the drudgery of file compatibility and all that boring (to me at least) sh*t, I may actually have something to contribute. I actually looked around for quite a while trying to find some real tutorials, before I posted here. But good modding advice seems to be conspicuously lacking for this game. A lot of Freelance modders seem to be rather individualistic...uh...individuals. And I suppose there's a fair share of people like Raven19 who broke ground on their own and are loath to give up the knowledge they fought so hard to obtain. It's perfectly understandable.

Thanks again for your replies!