Good evening everyone! Just finished modeling a third rail (its the thing for powering a train) and i think it’s kinda bad… Any tips what i can improve and maybe change?
Here is the model too ↓
And the reference
If you do this just for yourself, don’t dwell too much on details, you might get too bogged down on things you probably don’t enjoy. Try not to stress it too much, go with “what works” and improve things on a go, as you learn more shortcuts and tricks! Keep learning by “making mistakes”!
…only 34521 more to go!
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The design of this modeling is not a single part.
To increase the completeness of the modeling, we need to collect good data.
I don’t think this type of device will change its design much after a long time unless a new device comes out.
※ Collecting data takes a lot of time and effort.
If it is not available on the website of the relevant Hwasa or institution, more time is needed.
If the project period is short, we have no choice but to ignore the small part.
Thanks! But this work was supposed for 4 ppl, everyone has left the project and school, so im left alone here to work on it by myself. And im not going to give up 
Thanks i will speed up and spend less time on such details💓 its a great feeling when ppl are helping eachother, i appreciate it
Blockouts for the major parts help. Nearly everything can be almost tweaked to fit into a dozen primitives. Then, at least you have something in the viewport to scale and chop away at until it looks better. I’m no Master though so…I just like making things.
try reduce amount of poly… you’ve got already 5mln poly…
maybe.blend (1.5 MB)
check it out - its only 81k
woah 
this one looks a lot smoother than mine and its more optimized, thanks a lot
hey, so this was a bad idea, your model actually almost tripled amount of triangles, its because im doing everything in real life size, but thanks anyway, its bery kind of your to reac out and try to help me, i change your model a bit and now its around 12k