Where to get started?

[Megadeadlord]

I'd like to get started in Model Editing as it's always interested me as an unknown mysterious force driven by people spending hours at their computer which is pretty much what I do but you guys make eye-candy for nerds I just program physics. So what are some good things to read/download to get started? I got a release of Noggit but it ended up crashing my WoW install and Windows 7 sucks and won't read my backup drive for some reason. Crappy microsoft... So should using an older client version fix this? My overall goal with Model Editing is to get into some world building stuff or maybe custom gear sets.