Help with a model

[Alien Render]

hi pplz, i'm trying to make a mdl edit of the skeleton, i used onkerwinkles animation transfer and gave it a demon hunter animation it looks a lot better with those but, i still need to edit the main moddle, i want to delete the shield and put another sword (or anything) in his had in its place. how do i do that, and i have 3ds max 6 but i dont have an importer, any1 know how i can convert wc3 .mdl files or .mdx files into 3ds? or convert it into sum1thing i can convert into 3ds?

 

[Sopho]

You can converters [they are not fully complete ones] through a search on google.com ...