Topic: Advice for Beginning Modeller

[Smiley]

I'm afraid that I don't use Milkshape, I use Max, so my ability to assist will be nothing more than an educated guess at what the appropriate equivalent functions are called in Milkshape...

You need to select the faces or polygons that you want to detach from the main mesh, then find a (presumably) context sensitive menu that gives you the option of detaching the selected faces to a new mesh object.

One of the other guys should be able to help you better with Milkshape specifics.

[Rod ONeal]

In the menu group on the top right side click "model". That will open a new menu group in the below it.
Click "select".
That will open a new menu about halfway down. You want to have it set to "face" (as opposed to vertex) and it's easier if you tic select by vertex and turn off ignore backfaces.
Now select (hilight) one of the nacelles. By dragging a box around it. You can add or subtrct from your selection by holding down the shift key. Left click and drag adds to the selection. Right click and drag removes from the selection. (You'll have to play around to get the "feel" of how to select only the polygons that you want. It's not hard with a bit of practice.)
Go back up top and select the "groups" tab.
With your nacelle still hilighted/selected click on the "regroup" button in the menu below. It'll create a new group named "regroup01 (IIRC) in the groups window. That's your nacelle grouped all by itself.
There's a window in the menu group with the new group's name in it with the button "rename" next to it. Type the name that you want for the new group into it (L_nac for example) and hit "rename".