AH HA!!! That's what I want tips on. Or rather, more detailed instructions: your texture map for the markings and all. The model looks great. Did you work from ME 110 plans or photos? I have never worked in the vertex modeller. Started in on the tutorials, but had little patience for it at the time. (So sue me.) Began with RDS at my job, and the stuff I modeled was all straight extrusion stuff in the free form modeler. So, the stuff i've done for my own grins has been modeled with those kinds of objects.