Finishing touches

At this point, you have just a few key areas left to finish on your own. On the top, we have the recessed mechanical area and the empty spot by the nose:

On the bottom, we have the rest of the landing gear bays and (in my case) the extra set of mechanical areas in the nose:

By this point, you should have no trouble completing those areas on your own. You can duplicate parts from other areas of the ship, or create completely new objects—it's up to you.

Here's what my final ship looks like (with no materials):

So that's it—we're finally done with our ship model! I know this was a very complex project, but it did let us practice a lot of key skills. By this point, you should be very comfortable with the techniques we've been using.

Before moving on, there's an important observation we can make.

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