by Didik Wijaya

After your Gundam head shape is much better in previous tutorial, now, you will modify forehead area. You will create a shape like a hat in forehead area.

Modify Forehead Area

1. Activate Polygon selection. Rotate view in Perspective viewport until you can see inner side. Select polygons in the rear part of the head (look at left image below). Press "Delete" in keyboard to remove them. Change selection to Edge. Select all edges from forehead to rear of the head (look at right image below)..

2. In Top viewport, Shift+drag to the right. You should position these selected edges in the same exact X coordinate with existing edges (red circle). Note: Don't use X values shown here. You should check yourself

3. After that, go to Left viewport. Activate Vertex selection. Select vertices in forehead area. Move to the right. Move each vertex to match blueprint behind.

4. By the way, you can always increase or decrease material transparency to help you clearly see the model. Rotate view in Perspective viewport until you can see top of the head. Select 2 edges like shown in image below. In Edit Edges rollout, click Settings button right next to Connect. In opened dialog box, enter Segments=2 and Slide=2. Click OK.

5. From top menu click Customize>Grid And Snap Settings. In dialog box, check Edge/Segment. Now, you can precisely select anywhere along an edge. Cut edges in 2 areas like image below.

6. Change selection to Vertex. Move vertices to create smooth surface. Look at image below for reference.

7. Final step in this section. Change to Polygon selection. In Edit Geometry rollout click Create button. Fill the gap between forehead and eye area by creating new polygons. Use Create several times until all gap is filled.

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