Okay, here are two other screen shots. Like I said, in doing the “front” I hadn’t gotten around to using the “smoove” button from the Sandbox Tools (because I had them “hidden” from view") and so I just did a bunch of boxes one night, late at night, just to get it done (remember this was the last part of my model and I basically wanted to go back and start going from the roughed-up work to refined details), until later on, when I checked the “Sandbox Tools” and remembered that "Oh, yeah, I have the “Smoove tool” and I also have the Quadface Tools, which have a button to generate a section of quads from a section of Sandbox terrain.
It also wasn’t quite done. That’s because the upper inner part is actually inside another part of the model, and even the upper, outer parts (which jut out) do so in coordination with other parts of the model that come down and hang over/touch the parts that jut out.
Now I will have to figure it out in some other way in SubD.
I really appreciate your help on this. I know it seems like a lot, but when you consider that a) I did go to school for architecture; b) the school I went to had a philosophical stance against teaching their students CAD, c) they caved because their accredidation was threatened by the SACS (but not before I graduated), d) I suffered a stroke 18 years ago, to the left side of my brain, not a big deal, but sometimes I just don’t get things that are obvious until someone points them out-- or for instance, me forgetting about the “Smoove” tool simply because I unchecked the “Sandbox Tools” in my “View”>“Toolbars”. Then when I checked it, I saw the “Smoove Tool” and went “Oh, there’s a button in Quadface Tools that will change it from Sandbox to Quadface”.
I’ve been working on this thing for 4 years now. Everybody’s been awesome though!