OK, so I've been working on my own house Roman rules mini mod and its going smashingly. I've added most of the unit slots, added germanic invasion spawns, changed the map a tad, added an Iberian invasion spawn of hybernia, Hannibal spawn in Italy, and gave a tons of AOR changes.

The only thing I've yet to do a lot of is modelling. I've changed textures and skeletons around, and have edited textures in photoshop; but this is tricky and only takes you so far.

I appear to be limited to the fact that I don't have 3ds max; and I believe the licesnse is several thousand. Anyone know an easy solution for modelling to get around this issue? What does everyone else model with?