YOU WILL NEED:

Enemy Body Parts.mfa
This mfa contains all the objects you will need for this tutorial. Apart from the objects, frame 1 is empty, while frame 2 includes the finished code. Download here.

Ship (Active Object)
This object will be controlled by our player with the arrow keys.

Bullet (Active Object)
Pressing shift will fire this bullet.

Enemy (Active Object)
This is the body of our enemy.

Left Wing (Active Object)
Left Wing objects will be created, positioned and destroyed depending on their parent Enemy.

Enemy (Active Object)
Right Wing objects will be created, positioned and destroyed depending on their parent Enemy.