First of all thank you everyone for your suggestions!

So after posting this I thought I could try to model this using C4D as well (have some more experience with it, although I'm not very good at modeling yet) and it went pretty good in my opinion (results in the link).
So I will probably just leave this kind of geometry for poly/subd modeling.

Anyways, what is your thoughts on modeling such type of geometry? do you choose nurbs or poly/subd and why? or maybe even sculpting? I'm kinda new to 3D overall so sometimes I struggle to decide in which cases what programs should I use.

Poly/subd version - http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img924/9816/eleSX9.jpg