OK, here's where I am. Needless to say, there was a lot of work involved in the front end of this engineering hull. I don't know who decided to make this part this way back in the '60s, but it's not the easiest thing to replicate in 3D. Next up is the equally fun shuttlebay area.
BTW, if anybody
who knows Lightwave has any idea why I'm getting those smoothing errors in the rear of the booleans cut when I render and how to fix them, please let me know. Here's a screenshot showing the area to which I'm referring:
I followed Ger's tutorial and everything looks good to me, but what do I know?