I Was Having a Little Trouble...

     ...With 3DS Max (so rare, I know) until I reread the instructions and found step #3: "Sacrifice a small village's worth of the elderly to appease the 3DS Max gods so they will actually generate meshes properly." Aha! I had missed a step! And only a few hours later I had cleaned up and started back to modeling to see the improvement. Turns out it still sucked.
     The fruits of my labor did produce something I was happy with though, and here it is: My lovely Snowspeeder:

     I like the way it turned out, and I finally learned how to properly apply Ambient Occlusion to models. It is one of the dumbest ways I could conceive of doing it, but I figured it out nonetheless. Also, everyone, this is not made to be an exact 1:1 copy perfect realistic movie-identical indistinguishable from the movie magic copy, so please do not respond telling me that "Your control scheme doesn't leave much room for de-icing nozzles, and without repulsorlift engines, that hull modification would drive it right into the ground!" BECAUSE I ALREADY KNOW.

     I'm only one person, you know?

          -VV