Mantis Stage 2 (Body)

To create the body, I used a combination of the extrude tool, using the manipulation tools (move, rotate and scale) and using the soft selection tool. Although at first I had a go at using the extrude tool but found this to be a bit too fiddly to use for creating a body on a large scale (I have found the extrude tool in MAX more awkward to use than in MAYA) and used a different method of removing one of the caps off my cylinder shape, then using the edit poly modifier, I selected borders, clicked on my new gaping hole in the cylinder, this selects the border of where the cap once was, then holding shift acts as an extrude. I found this much better to use than the actual extrude tool!