thanks for the advice both of you....however I tried both and it came out the same

I'm not sure now if it's the game or something in Maya.

All I did was selected the faces I wanted to add more to, then selected 'smooth' and the extra faces appeared and look fine in Maya. Maybe I'm missing a step or something.

To my noobie mind they look as if they are not mapped to the object properly.

Any new advice much appreciated.

DM