I had a slow job for a year, so I bought Essential Blender and went through it chapter by chapter when bored, I'm no expert but I can now model reasonably well

I had a slow job for a year, so I bought Essential Blender and went through it chapter by chapter when bored, I'm no expert but I can now model reasonably well - you can also read it free online here http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.4/Books/Essential_Blender http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.4/Books/Essential_Bl... - but yeah it's 2.49 focussed, and the new 2.5 is considerably better/different - here's something I modelled after a month or so http://www.blackspike.com/site/3d/technics-1210-3d http://www.blackspike.com/site/3d/technics-1210-3d