Finishing the Details

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1. First we'll push the nose area out.

   Select the front polygon and bevel it with these settings. Bevel settings

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2. Bevel again with these settings. Bevel settings

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3. Select the second set of points from the front.

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4. Select the Stretch tool. In the Face view, place the cursor in the center of the selected points and stretch in the X axis to about 0.8, leaving Y and Z at 1.

   This gives nice shape to the nose area.

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5. Now to add definition to the engines.

   Select the front and rear polygons of the engines and bevel them with these settings. Bevel settings

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6. Bevel them again to make the intake and exhaust openings. Bevel settings

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7. Select the 20 points at the front of the plane.

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8. Move them forward about 800 mm.

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9. Freeze the plane and we're done. You can vary the amount of smoothness of the freezing by changing the Patch Division level on the Data Options panel. We used a level of 5 for this tutorial.

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