hi i'm new to posting here and quite new to maya.

I'm trying to model a 2 in a shape of a swan. I'm trying to use xtrude to do this with a curve as a reference (think i adapted the curve from a font 2 curve). got a bit lost as to whether it's the best way to do it. I have included a file below with a half finished haphazardly extruded 2.

Previously i tried manipulating a straight 2 extrude to with bones then deleting the bonesout of the 2 to get the result, but that ended up messy.

patch modelling, some other surface style thing , extrude?? which.