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"Grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion." Bender from Futurama is some ways from the Brain Pan Achievement...
Modo is made by Luxology. It started as a polygon and subdivision modeller, but each revision has added more to it (Version 2 added rendering, 3 added animation and sculpting). It's a very slick program, and is used by id software and Pixar among others. EVE in Wall-E was modelled entirely in modo, as was the ship that brought her to Earth at the beginning. Version 4 is out soon, and will add lots of improvements including fur.
I model most of my stuff by eye. For the warthog I have a small McFarlane model sat on my desk that I use as reference. I have not made a carbon copy of the original, as I like to put my own stamp on things. The rocket launcher was based on the weapon that came with one of my Master Chief figures, and the battle rifle reference is a master replicas model. Both of them were modelled by eye too.