Evening all,
I would like to model a steering wheel but I’m not sure how to start it, I wouldn’t exactly call myself a noob either so technical terms can be used! 
I’m thinking perhaps to create a tube that goes around, cut it in half, mirror it and then cut sections out where I need to extrude stuff.
This is the wheel I’m trying to model, but sometimes I look at stuff and think “hmm how am I going to do that…?”
Thanks :eek:
sounds like you know what you need to do to get started. some of those curvy bits look tricky though. I think you need more reference photos to really know what is going on there.
Use the array modifier on a small part of the steering wheel and then a curve modifier to make it a circle. Done and done.
Could start with topology. I first drew some of what I look for when modeling something like that, with as less vertices as possible.
Usually I would examine much more references but I only looked at pic you linked in this one.
Would probably do the bulging part on top of the thumb rest differently than what I did here because It’s more prominent. And also add more geometry to get rid of the 6-sided pole.
-> Can start with a mesh circle that has 20 vertices
Wouldn’t normally model like this but I quickly did a mockup in Blender without reference image and used only those lines to guide where the vertices go.
Not a pretty sight but works as an example I guess.
