I'm currently tidying up a model of a Tibetan-style stupa and I'd like to clear up a couple of things before I release it (as a freebie later this month).

I'm very much a beginner at 3D modelling, and this is a fairly basic model (just over 1000 vertices/1000 faces). It was created from a few spheres, cubes and cylinders, which were then extruded, manipulated, and finally joined together.

The way I joined things was fairly laborious, creating edges and faces one by one to fill the gap between the 4-sided and 16-sided elements - any advice on a smarter way to do this?

I think that the end result (i.e. the actual quads and triangles that fill the join area) is okay - it looks 'neat and tidy', and it renders okay in D|S 3 and Poser 6 (well, not quite).

However, I may have made some very basic errors in constructing these joining areas. Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

(Hopefully there's a  picture attached to this posting which shows exactly what I mean)

3D Cheapskate

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