From the course: Modeling a Motorcycle in Blender

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Creating the speedometer

Creating the speedometer

- (Voiceover) To create the speedometer, let's go through pretty much the same process again. Let's create a cube and begin molding it to shape. So I'll go back to the side view and let's take a look at it up here. Here it is, I'll go to a new layer, and I'll create a Cube, and let's go to Wire Frame and move it up into place. And now if we tab into Edit mode, we can begin moving these points into place. So I'll just grab these points with the border select and move them to get that basic shape. I'll go ahead and tumble around and take a look at it and I'll bring the rest of the motorcycle back so we can see how wide it is, and for this let's go ahead and bring it in in the X-axis and maybe about like this, let's begin with this. So I'll press Control + R and maybe insert an edge loop here, and let's also do one here. And now that allows us to grab these points and just pull them up into place. Alright, now let's go ahead and add a Subdivision Surface Modifier to this. I'll add that…

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