I have been looking at models built by experts for some time now and puzzling at why they are just fragments. The Poser figures after import into Carrara and downloaded Maya props especially stand out. I thought they were not handmade with so many seams running at odd angles where fit was difficult to guage. Now I have a book "Advanced Sheet Metal Fabrication" by Timothy Remus; Wolfgang, Stillwater, Minnnesota, 2003 that shows piece work as being how one gets into the center of a piece with power hammers and shrinking dies on the edges. Seeing is believeing but I still wonder what sort of rare earth magnets he uses to hold his paper patterns on to wooden bucks and aluminum copy pieces. I'm familiar with eddy currents and how alumnum can respond to ac in linear induction motors but these look like little permanent magnets used similar to how a draftsman holds a spline to a curve with mice. Anyway I had to make my hot rod into pieces to see if I could ever put it back together and how well the edges held without creasing. Then I wondered how to present it. Just a better shape and form? Exploded? Color coded? I decided on a checker work of just enough colors to keep adjacent pieces from being the same color. Because of the odd sizes and overlaps, black and white was insufficient. Importing the result to Poser gave very bad behavior of the mirrored left side as a right side. Spikes ran off to surreal places. Isolating the instability to a single part and hiding it only made the rest of that side misbehave. So I imported the mirrored side as 3ds while the rest was .obj!! Oddly the pieces mirrored into the right door worked fine. So both doors and the trunk are .obj with repostioned origins to allow openning on a hinge line. Openning the result in DAZStudio the right side now had no textures but had two mapped values only. I do understand that in metal the form is a map of the thickness that causes the shape to be produced as an equilibrium without clamps or fastening at the edge. The algorithms in digital modelling are leading me along. This body now has 85 parts of which 52 are unique and 33 are mirrored. It takes five colors to describe it as alternating areas. The finish of the part along the way in the book is like the surface of the sea as thumbnail dies are used or as a hammer and dolly are used. My first dolly was a crude mushroom. Only after I got a professional pick hammer could I even begin to finish a piece. Pounding of a stretched fender from a wreck with a 2-1/2 pound mall was insufficient to move the metal and stories about shrinking the edges of a dent with a torch I know to be false. The pick is the shrinker and the face of the hammer is the stretcher in general for a beginner. It just takes time a feel and an eye.