Hey there, first of all, "hate to be new at things"? You always gotta start somewhere, but I understand the feeling. But yeah, gotta start, or else life gets boring.
On for the real help, have you tried looking at some tutorials on the forums?
There's a huge Beginner tutorial, made by lugiaisbeast101, right here:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1485Then a texture tutorial, made by our awsome texturer Karrybird, right there:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1437Then there are Jurro's tutorials, but they're a little older, so I don't know them, check them out still, might be usefull, she was awsome I heard (I'm kinda new too, she left before I joined
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But also, making the model bigger is a huge help, and it's always said to beginners, mostly because they don't know, but the in-game model will be the good size no matter the size of the model in Techne.
And if you have any huge problem, or already know how to use some other modelling program, you know about that? Maybe not, so I'll stop there.
Anyway, I suggest restarting, and make the model bigger, it's really useful, and allows you to do so much more detail, and more forms, like rounding, by putting blocks and rotating them.
But maybe the best way to learn some things, is simply to take an in-depth look at some models others've done, such as the ones in sub-forums in Gen1 model feedback.
Another post you could try to find, search "modeling secret", Edeodin has made a detailed post about some things he learned about Techne, it's usefull I think, and it's really simply made but really nice to read!
And ;( doesn't work, a wink conflict with the downward smiley.
So, good luck with modeling, I personnaly stuck at it