Why don't you try dividing the main body in half lengthwise and then mapping them seperately?  It won't effect the final finished product, and it makes life so much easier in the longrun.

I havent mapped the textures, so they actually fit the shape of my aircraft,  like i said they are just cessna 208 textures,=.

like i said im just practicing applying textures since thats the fourth time i believe it came out the way it "should". I read the Stupid Idiots Guide to Gmax, the part about using the UVW map to get the sizes of the parts, and the conversion of feet\meters to pixels.... i just didnt get to making the layouts yet...

I am using Pixia, but i have MSpaint, and Irfanview, and DXTbmp so i have the editors covered.





another note,


I did some simple animations, flaps, elevator, tried to do the rudder and the ailerons but that didnt pan out, anywho the flaps instead of rotating on an axis they moved vertically down, giving the floatplane a hyrdoplane type look to it, although quite funny, it wasnt what i wanted.

yellow circle, where they should be

Red circle, where they went

Tell you the truth i dont remember if i did that before or after i exported 

(its under the hierarchy tab) affect pivot only