Create a New Project
File > Project > New
Click on Use Defaults at Bottom of popup window
Rename your project
Set location if you need to
Click accept
You need to get reference photos:
Top/Bottom, Side, Front/Back
How to Create an Image Plane for a camera:
(Note: you can create thumbnails of the commands: Alt+CTRL+Shift while selecting command from the menu)
In outliner, click on top camera
Then pull up the multilister by Window > Attribute Editor
OR button in menu 
click on top shape
In attribute Editor scroll down to Environment tab
click Create near image plane
new window opens set the parameters as follows:
Image Plane Attributes
Display: looking through camera(if you want to see the image only in
the top camera view, otherwise select in all views)
Display Mode: RGB
Image Plane: Fixed (this way when you move the camera, the Image Plane and the refence curves you draw will follow it)
Type: Image File
Image Name: here you have to load the file you will use as reference
Scroll down & also set up the Placement Extras (Note you need to consider the size and proportions of your image when making a decision about the width and height)
Placement Extras
Center: 0 0 0
Width: (Make this proportional to your image)
Height: ('')
Now Create curves with the CV Curve Tool
Create > Curve Tool [] (make it 3 Cubic)
( Tip When you draw a curve you have to use less CV as possible;
this way you will control the curve easier and your model will be
"lighter" too. In this case you don't need to pay great attention to
this because the curves you draw will only be a reference). Once
you have drawn the top and bottom profiles rename them bottomProfile
and topProfile
(Tip When you rename something in Maya, it's better not to use
spaces or underscore. Try to use compound words with capital letters;
this will work better especially when you will use expressions).
Now, since you don't need to modify them any more and since they are
only reference curves, you can template them.
Before doing this it's better to assign these and the other profile
curves we will create to a level. The use of the layers is extremely
important; using the Layer Editor you can hide, template or select
the different parts of your model very easily. So to assign the curves
to a new layer:
Window>Layer Editor 1.
Click the New Layer button 2.
Click the Rename button and rename the layer referenceProfiles 3.
Select the bottomProfile and the topProfile 4.
Click on the Assign to Current button.