I've gotten motivated to do some modding again thanks mostly to the work of san7a and GLScooby. You guys are doing some excellent work and are a great inspiration to all of us.
I've gotten going with some design work, but I'm hitting some problems that I need a bit of help with. The thing I'd really like to draw some design ideas from is this:
The problem I've hit is that most of the best design work utilizes 3 dimensions, while in building a case you really only have two dimensions since not much can be done with the small distance between the sides you have to work with.
From what I can deduce, the main aspects to the design are the upward traveling curves and the abundance of very small angles.
I started sketching some possible shapes for the top of the case with a handle:
As you can see, neither looks very good. I don't really know what to say about the first one other than it just doesn't look right. I know exactly why the second one looks bad though, it looks too much like The Cheat of internet fame.
Here's a CAD drawing of a partial top and handle design that looks quite a bit better to me. The problem with this one is that it's lacking any curves whatsoever which are pretty integeral to the reference design.
Does anyone have some design tips that I can use? How about some sketches?
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