Hi mushroomgod, it is coming together nicely!

Yeah with subd sometimes the "everything totally melted" type mechanism behind it can be not quite right for things that should have more structured details in them.

The full melting effect is great for things that should have very melded features like a human face, but the more kinds of distinct cutouts and sort of "panelized" type features tends to go along with NURBS modeling more...

- Michael