So Valve is being lovey and letting people throw in their models for hats and weapons blah blah blah,
read about it here, and I wanna step it up from Blender and Milkshape so I can actually get some hawt stuff in, and I wanna know in your personal, deeply thought, soul searched opinions what out of Maya, 3DS-Max, XSI, or whatever else you can think of is the best for an average modeler.