Hi Michael, yes probably as mentioned above Blend between 2 cylinders could work - delete the end caps off the cylinders before you use Blend on the edges.

Also if I understand correctly Loft should work as well, if you use the "Loft style = Loose" option. For using the loose loft, you will want to have 2 duplicates for the first and last profiles. You would arrange them like this:



Then when doing the loft (again, the key thing is setting the option for "Loft style = Loose", not the default mode that forces the loft to go directly through every profile), you will get this kind of result:



- Michael