Thanks for the comment Rik. The second technique you described for forming the concavity is actually more or less what I did in the screenshot I posted. The part I couldn't figure out was how to marry it together cleanly with the main cylinder of the flashlight body. Shortly afterward I tried just going in with the cut…
I hope this isn't a faux-pas to make a thread here with such elementary questions, I'm new to polycount and frankly I don't even understand what most of the thread titles in this subforum mean. I'm trying to teach myself low poly 3D modeling for fun and have been learning 3Ds Max for a few days via youtube. My main…