The Right Side of the Pump

I created most of this part out of a box. I added multiple segments so I had more vertices to work with when it came to modelling. Once I had created the general outline of the pump I added in the detail. This specifically meant the cylindrical parts at first. I created these in two ways. The first, being the most simple, for the ‘side’ cylinders was to simply create the cylinders and weld points down the middle to make them one object and place it in the middle of the box. The second, for where a pipeline will join, I used the Boolean tool to unify the 2 object into one, creating a weld effect on the metal.

The next set of detail I went into was on the box where a groove appears. I created this groove/lip by creating more vertices and dragging them in. I felt that this effect came out very well. The final part to this pump would be the nuts, bolts and embossed text on top. All of which were very simple to make. All the nuts were created from one object and cloned, these were created from an Ngon. The bolts were simply cylinders and of course the text was created using the text tool and modifying it with extrude and bend to get the shape I needed.

















Now that I had the general shape of my part of the pump I could set about making a house for my fire, since this would then need to connect up to my pump.