Oolite Bulletins

I am able to get the <--> indicator at all the positions indicated in red arrows except for the red arrow at position 1 There I get the indicator but no subcommand for joining or splitting?? Ok! By some or orther quirk I managed to set up the recommended interface as required by the tutorial... and ...

Sorry but I am not getting this. When I right click in the areas indicated I get a double arrow but nothing about split or join area so I am unable to configure blender as suggested

Just starting out with new Oolite - played it many years ago. I have downloaded and installed Wings3D and used that quite nicely together with GIMP and did my own Ship. I would like to give Blender a go and so far I have managed to import a ship .obj model. Are there any user friendly tutorials on b...