Thanks for the info. I'm glad for the help in accomplishing my goal, but because I'm trying to determine whether I should buy the product, I was hoping to understand why the subdivision didn't do what I expected (which was smooth everything in the same way).
Would it be because I have extra vertices in the wrong places, or because I already applied the rotations that gave the arch to the wings, or... what?
Because I'm totally uneducated about modeling (which only time will fix) I am probably hoping to rely on the subdivision too much. Or rather, hoping subdivision can fix my inability to do smoothish shapes by hand.
In particular, why did the back side of the model end up with 'holes' on the bottom part of the body?
(When I get a chance to try your suggestion, I'll probably have questions about that too
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Thanks for your help,
Stan