Nimbus 2000

Jarheadbam

Hi folks, i am new here. I was working on a prop, and i've seem to hit a roadblock.
I am trying to create the Nimbus 2000 from the Harry potter series in 3ds max & my plan is to create a high poly so i can bake the details on the broom part.
I have the low poly done, but i got stuck while creating the high poly. This is what i have so far,



i wanted to create the strands for the broom, which according to the ref should look like this,



but i am stuck.
Any tips would be tremendously helpful.
And also, what would be the best way to approach this project? how would you tackle it?
I plan on taking it to zbrush (still learning) and then substance painter (i am good pretty good at it).

Thank you, have a great day

srsface

You could make a bunch of splines, enable them in Viewport to make their geo visible, tweak the spline's settings so that there's enough segments etc., then make them one Editable Poly, then use FFD / Twist modifiers etc to get them to your desired shape. Probably not the only or best way to do it, but in my head this should work.

You can use something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nunjnEnlz0&feature=emb_title for handy spline generation to get you off to a good start.

oglu

I would model them by hand. One by one.

Eric Chadwick

Lots of scripts out there, should save a lot of time. 
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/spline-fibers

Scriptspot is a great resource for 3ds Max. I searched "wire" to find that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUAxdxkJVws

Jarheadbam

@srsface Thank you for the video reference,that was really helpful.

@oglu That would give me the best result, no doubt. Thank you

Jarheadbam

@Eric Chadwick Yess please. Thanks a bunch, this is what i was looking for! 
Scripstspot, i'll be sure to check there before asking questions here