If you're looking for a combination of intuitiveness and power, I'd recommend Art of Illusion - save for the fact that the UV texturing support in that app is just horrible (you have to manually drag the vertices around and half the time you can't even get them to appear on the uvmap
)! Fortunately someone by the name of Francois is working on a mesh-auto-unwrapper plugin-gizmo-thingy for AoI, and in the meantime Wings 3D, while it has a bit of a learning curve (you have to do everything via right-click menus ala SE3 - no click and drag) can be used to create a nifty looking model in no time flat. (Just watch out for intersecting or nonplanar faces - those things are a PAIN!)
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