Taera, After looking at the Bezier patch tutorial Last night, I can see what you mean about their usefulness. They seem extremely versatile.
I am learning more about how the parts of the program work, but putting it all together will be difficult. Would you be willing to send me an .mdl file of one of your ships? Looking at a completed model would be extremely useful in terms of understanding how to use merges, differences, patches, all together.
PS Those Taera ships look great.
The detail is amazing - they must have taken a long time to make.