Hey Felix
Give you my 2 cents for whats it worth. Moi silo and zbrush..all you will need. The drawing you attached is very do able just break it dow into small segments of modeling. I make cnc patterns quite a bit for hobby and I found the 3 programs I mentioned will do it all. You could leave zbrush and just go with sculptris. Zbrush was one of the programs I bought a while when I really had no clue but wanted to make patterns..thank god the updates are free. I think artcam at 8k is WAY pricey..you can get Aspire for 2K..still way pricey I think for what it does vs what you can do with moi silo and sculptris. I bounce and forth between nurbs and quads a lot..I get frustrated with the two different UI's and find my self in Moi quite a bit doing silo type comands for selction movement etc..and am oh yeah.
You right the highly organic stuff is quads....for a while I tried to avoid learning polygon modelling. I found moi to so much nicer to work in...but quads have their place...like the leafs and scrolls in your picture. Once I dove in and started with simple things like an apple, pumpkins stuff like that all the basics started to click. My advice learn nurbs and quads..both have their pluses and minuses..
BTW the 4 th axis..Im soo jealous...I am helpng a guy out right now that just a 4 axis machine...
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