Thanks again for the tip Maudib... I'm doing the exact same thing... Just wanted to make sure I wasn't making this more work than necessary.
For filming I will have different versions of the big G... One for close-ups... Another for full scale beauty shots. Another for battle scenes.
Lightwave really seems to handle all those greebles very well. But to help with filming, I'm going to need the different versions.
Regarding scale...
I first built a viper to scale and then built everything around that myself... The Launch tube, hanger deck, and landing deck... It was all about the scale of the Viper...
I'm just glad I have a forum to go to, to brain storm all this stuff.