I first started out by placing a cylinder to the scene and changing the subdivision axis to 8 and subdivision height to 4, I did the same for the kettle lid but just altered the subdivision height to 2. I selected the upper poly edge of the lid to and scaled them all in to create a bevel, i also selected some of the edges on the top and deleted them. What did next was to select each edge on the main cylinder and scale them down increasingly larger as I went down, the same was done for the lid and an extrusion on the top face was done to create top handle as on the image below.




















As you can see from the image above it seems that i have smoothed both the lid and base quite a bit, but that is not the case. Here I have used a new technique to produce the model smooth looking without adding more edges or vertices to it. The way it was done was buy converting the polygon to subdivision through the modify heading, then pressing buttons 1-3 will allow you to see the model in higher resolution and smoothed out and without pressing the smooth button. I found this technique out today as i as fiddling around with the subdivisions.



















This is the end result which i am quite happy with, i learnt more new techniques which will help me heavily in future modelling. Still cant believe the results looks this good with out smoothing it at all which i have to admit i did with most of my modelling which lead to vertices we did not need. After finnishing off the modelling if was time to add thetextures to the tea kettle, for this i had to refrence an image of a kettle i found on the internet. I will show you below

















As you can see the color and style resembles that of what would find in Tom and Jerry so this is why i chose to take refrence from this pib but altering the kettle as i went along. I chose to texture this under blinn as this would result in a more metalic finnish, changin the Eccentricity to 0.889 gave it the pefect metalic effect to the kettle. All i did next was to finnish it off by adding the correct colors, image shown below