Nice way of modeling is sculpting and then take your work to Lightwave and finish there the job.
ZBRUSH 4R7
Powerful tools, retopology and painting textures included...and GOZ connection with LW!!
ZBRUSH CORE
Reduced version fo 4R7, not such powerful tools as mentioned above but interesting
3D COAT
Retopo and texturing tools
BLENDER
The most competitive price (FREE!) and nice tools. Not nice texturing tools, but a lot of plugins to work with mesh... sadly not available in LW some of them like great retopo tools
SCULPTRIS
Nice for discovering sculpting... and also FREE!
