Firstly an indent in one of the faces was created using the Inset and Extrude tools to form the main control panel. This was then fine tuned by editing certain polygons to achieve two curved arches at the top of this panel.
The buttons were then created and placed. They were built using cylinders mostly. Some had curved tops which were created by pulling up the vertexes on the top face of the cylinder to make it curved (this technique was also used to elongate some of the buttons). These knobs then had every other face around the sides extruded and bevelled to form the rough grip for them.
Then came the plugs for the wires. These were cylinders with the outermost ring of polygons selected and then extruded to form the sides of the plug. Within then plug itself, pins were placed made from capsule shapes.
Once all the plugs and sockets were built and placed, readout was constructed by extruding a flattened cylinder. Firstly the vertexes had to be edited so that the extruded portions formed the shape of the glass panel on the reader. Once the vertexes were correctly positioned the faces that were to be extruded were selected and then modified. This produced and correctly shaped indent but the readout has glass on it. To put this in the section of the readout that had been extruded was selected again and duplicated. a material was then added to this section that was created by reducing it's visibility and increasing it's glossiness to mimic glass. The duplication of this section also meant the glass panel was a perfect fit.
Similarly, this glass texture was used for two similar inclusions either side of the main readout. For these a rectangle was textured and bent.
A second, smaller model formed the device with which the operator taps out messages. This was again another box except that it's edges were modified in order to make them more curved. This was done by moving the vertexes to from a more rounded edge. As for the button on top, this was a flattened cylinder, again with the vertexes moved to form a rounded edge.
The cable connecting the receiver and the smaller tapping box was made in the same fashion as the wires on the Enigma Machine model.
As with the Enigma MAchine model, screws were added to this machine to add to the realism of it.
The Model was them textured using the Material Editor both for creating custom textures by changing the glossiness, colour, gradient, bump, noise setting etc.
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