OK, I've given a shot at showing what I mean by building a mockup of part of your object the way I think you made it with Bryce primitives.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy