What's the best free 3D modeling tool to use for Skyrim??? I ask because I wanna make my own custom armor & weapons that are truly my own...

I don't mod for skyrim, but I make all my models and renders in blender. I don't know for sure if a converter exists to turn blender models into nifs but I think there is.


Wings3d is another good free one

I use Blender as well, but to answer your question, Max. I say this because I believe there are working import export scripts for Skyrim nif files. With Blender you have to export as .OBJ and import to Nifskope that way. Max is huge expensive though. I'll stick with Blender.