I gotta mention this while I'm here: I do believe we're supposed to keep age out of the forums, pardon me if I'm mistaken.
But, I'm a HUGE wings 3d lover. I have it, and Hexagon 3D. I do my base modeling in wings 3d, and then export and use hexagon for touchups, and one of these days, texturing. If you have Vista, I'm sorry to say, Wings 3D appears to have compatibility issues, but it could just be an organic error

Wings 3D has a simple, comfortable array of tools, and I've seen great work done with it.
And a side note on people who think Anim8or can't do good models: do we remember Neodelito's models? Superb, and if I remember correctly, they were Anim8or.