I've recently started texturing Freelancer ships, and am wondering if there is a model viewer available that simply shows a ship in 3D with its textures skinned on it?

I had done some texturing work before with the ships in the game Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, in which someone had created a viewer for completly skinned ships that "uses DirectX 8 TrueVision3D to display a 3D view of the model ". (To see what I'm talking about, feel free to have a look at this: http://www.biosboy.fsnet.co.uk/optviewer.htm) The nice thing about a program like that is that I could view my textures on the ship without having to load Freelancer and a savegame with the ship, then fly out into space and hope for some decent lighting, where I could use the turret view to get a 3D look at my unfinished skinned textures.

I think Milkshape can probably do this, but I'm not really interested in forking out money for it, since as a graphic designer, I'm not at all interested in the modeling of a ship, merely the textures.

If there is a program like this, I would love to find out about it. If not, would anyone be up to the task of making one? heh..