How to model a membrane vesicle?

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I have been using blender for over 3 months, but I am struggling with modelling the membrane vesicle for my research project. I could model the basic lipid structure, but I had no idea how to assemble them like a sphere shape as a vesicle finally. I attach a image showing how it should like. Any idea or help would be really appreciated! Thanks

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Perhaps with parenting?
You just need one pair of heads and tails for each side of the membrane.
Create a icosphere with a resolution of 5 or 6, and set the ‘Duplication’ to ‘Verts’.
On the lipid structure, select the icosphere as the parent, and turn the ‘rotation’ checkbox on.
(the lipid should be oriented in the Y axis)

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untitled.blend (156 KB)
previous suggestion in .blend form

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the Tissue add-on might be of use.

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Thanks. I have tried in this way, but its hard to control the orientation of the lipid. I will try as you suggested, setting the lipid in Y axis.

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Thank you. Can I ask where I can find this file or this post? Could you please send this the link of this post.

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Hiya, thanks for the file. Can i ask where I can find this post?