Originally posted by esion
I am not sure if you are trying to make the geometry all triangles, but you have some really bad non manifold geometry in there.
Agreed with that. There seems to be no flow at all, it all seems a jumbled mess in there, with tons of border edges everywhere. Always work with quads imho, and try forgetting the poly smooth and go straight to a Sub-D conversion, at least this lets you work with the old poly history and when rendered will show a nice smooth object.
Don't give up, take everyone's advice and start again. Don't look at this as being fruitless you will have learnt a great deal from this. Move onwards and upwards.
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