The outcome of the model is a positive as I am really pleased with what I have created. Today at university I was carrying on with the model and the computer crashed after working on it for quite a while, of course this meant I lost all the work I had done to the model in that time, and I was very close to losing my temper and going home, fortunately I cooled down and went and sat on a computer away from everyone, and started again. I must admit the second attempt was probably better, so the computer crashing worked in my favour, strangely.
I finally learnt how to use symmetry and mirror tool correctly, so that whatever I did to one object it 'mirrored' it and did to the other side, I did this by clicking on the modifier list, and finding the symmetry option, chosing this option and then selecting mirror, I could then drag across the object on whatever axis I wanted, this meant I could manipulate an object and get the exact same results on the clone symmetry object too.
I used this technique on the V shape of the model connecting the engines and wings.
Another technique which I used today was the pro-bolean tool, this tool allowed me to indent a shape into the body of the model, I needed to create two grooves in the front of the ship, I created a sphere and shrunk it to the shape I desired, I then placed the shape on the front of the ship where they needed to be located, I needed two of these so I simply copied the shape across, and placed them both in the correct positions, I then selected the pro-bolean option and clicked on the 'start-picking' option, I then clicked on both the manipulated sphere shapes which deleted the shapes and also deletes the indentation on the primary shape, this gave me the grooves I was aiming to achieve.
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