Thanks to Felix, I have managed to get a good bit more done on my Corsair.  I know what you mean know about how tedious adding points can get!    My current problems involve the canopy not staying transparent, making the wing roots look smooth instead of tacked on, and smoothing...  I decided to make the wings in two parts because the roots are farely complicated, while the outer edges are pretty basic.  I am not planning on folding wings, because I don't know what's involved in the animation, and the F2G-1 was probably the only Corsair that didn't have them.

Interesting...  I'll try that with the wing root. 

On the canopy, I tried what it suggested in the help files.  I isolated the poly's that were glass and made the alpha channel of the applied material 3 instead of 255.  It promptly made the unselected polys transparent!  ???  So I selected the parts that were the frame and it promptly made the glas transparent.  Go figure...  I think I will split it up.  If nothing else, it will make for a neater border.  It's going to mean redoing the whole thing, but I'm used to that by now...