Animation 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khvK9GBPIhk
Animation 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZFH5g_N5tk
Animation 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvSJNsFaAn8
Will

In the curved surface above i have use my "Slick" texture to try and convey a smooth feeling to the shape.

This was my original sketchup model based on the same original section but i felt as strayed further away from the idea in the section it lost the feeling and idea that i liked about it to begin with. From this point i started from scratch to try and recapture the original idea.