My final model was easier than the others as it was made of several shapes that I could pull apart from each other, I did the main body first which consisted of a cube that was stretched, cut and extruded in several places with cylinders that were clipping through the body slightly to create a curved plane effect. These were grouped together and connected and moved to the back. I had found that moving items that I am not using to the back of the grid was a great use of space as I could focus on creating other parts.
Next I created the head out of another cube, cutting one face and moving the vertices of said face to create a droop look on the cockpit as the ship has. I cut out the window and applied a black colour to it and extruded inwards some small detail just below the window. Once this was finished I moved it onto the body and connected them together.
The engines were created from a sphere that was cut in half, extruded two layers of the circle and stuck to the back of the cylinders on the body, an orange paint was applied to give the effect of the engine working.
The wings were the most difficult part as they had allot of cuts and extrusions on them, some cuts messed up the shape entirely and I had to be careful on where my cuts went, I think the problem with the shape messing up was with deleting some edges so that I could extrude an entire face and create a nice effect on the wings. The top wing was mirrored and attached to the ship while the bottom two wings were created, mirrored, placed at an angle and duplicated as they had different detail to them.
I had 6 small struts (3 on each wing) hold the wings to the body at an angle.
Lastly the cannons were made of two cylinders, and cut and extruded to the shape I wanted before plastering them onto the ship.
This last model was the easiest and most fun to make just because I had more control over what I could do in the terms of detail as none of it was extremely close together like the Star Destroyer.
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