Noob Here - Just starting with KiCad - bom problems - possibly due to my ignorance

Lewis,

(1) To get the footprints to work,
read SembazuruCDE 's reply of Aug 28th to tdarlic here:

and note where he says
“3D library included with KiCad doesn’t actually have a 3D object for every footprint”
There is another library I had to install

(2)To get the 3-D to work,
This is the package I had to install on October 18 to load the 3D libraries.

apt-cache search kicad-packages3d

(Am using 64-bit debian linux–tyou’ll obviously need a different tool to install
the software on 64-bit MS Windows.)
Rene_Poschle explains why here:

Hope this helps, I am just a newbie myself.