Haha that was such an epic description, it made my day😄
Some of that on the fly problem solving comes with practice, so the more you model the faster the solutions will present themselves! There’s not really any shortcut to that. Also be aware that since I want these tutorials to be accurate and to the point, I made this model about 5 different times before recording – the first few didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted. You’ll end up learning way faster if you delete your first attempts and start from scratch, because you’ll know exactly which pitfalls to try and avoid. https://blog.cgcookie.com/delete-start/