With lighting & textures in Blender 5.2

The earlier projects that I've done with Plasticity.

I wanted (in fact I needed) to merge or fuse pipes. -The first and the second screenshots show the first thing I tried which is Boolean; not what I wanted and I knew it; I was just tasting the waters. - Third and fourth screenshots show the Boolean operation with fillet, which is the next thing I would do, right? Not too bad but not too good either. - -Then fifth and sixth screenshots show a better result, the one I said: "oh well, that's good (for now)". I mean I'm happy with the result, but I know I can do better, I just have to find out how to do it. But I'm OK with it. Looks good enough (I think lol). - Now, the problem is that I don't remember exactly how I got it 😁. I have to start all over again 😅.

With titanium material. Sci-Fi design course.