I'm not into Lightwave...
I just admire it from far although I got to know a few functions from time to time and their utilities since many of my Wings3D fellas use it for rendering and animating so basically yeah,I can model in it but the workflow is just very different to mine.
Oh,and as a shameless Wings3D plug

ReelFX,a team of digital productions using Lightwave,announced in a live stream that they used Wings3D in the conception of their GI.Joe(I know

) movie.
If I've seen it all before,why's this bus taking me back again? @_@