Thought I’d start something I could actually finish someday :p, maybe I will if I don’t get bored with it. I know the plane looks kinda… pixelated(if that’s the right term for it. Lot of work to be done but I think it’s … less bad than my other attempts on …anything. Hope you like it.
1). You could try the cloud tutorial by cog (find it in the forum)
2). It looks like you have a turbine for the nose, it can’t be going the other way because it has the back wings, the body should taper into the nose and you put the propeller in a small grove that goes around the nose.