Need help for ship modding

[phatmatt]

First of all i would like to say that i admire all of you ship modders out there, I love to see the work you make here.

Here it is, I want to have fun on my free time and mod a ship or two for my pleasure so i want to know what are the must have tools for editing, cloning, skinning a ship. I looked in the list of mod tools but i am not sure what i actually need and what-not.

I never modded anything and would like to start to mod/edit ships so i will also need some really really good guides to "the how to" for every tool i'll get would be better with some pics showing, im one of those "look once, learn a lifetime"

Sure i'll ******* a lot before i get something to look like a ship or something that actually looks seaworthy but remember I just want to try something new, always fun too. Hope i'll catch pretty quicky which i doubt