Sockmonkey Sandrock WIP (2008-01-02)

Tonight I made the left lower leg narrower by 2mm (but made the knee guard .5mm wider), trimmed down the left shoulder armor, and reduced the length of the fringe at the base of the helmet by about 1mm. The shoulder armor change was something I decided on a while back: after looking at the lineart and the B-Club Sandrock I decided that the shoulder armors on the sockmonkey were too large and also not contoured quite right. Even after the reduction, the shoulder is quite large, but now it has a bit of a more sleek look to it. The lower leg change looks promising but I think the knee guard area still needs work. I’m very happy with how the head’s shaping up, I think particularly once I whip up a V-fin for it it’ll look really nice.

At this point I don’t have a good idea of how far this project is going to go in terms of refinement. Certainly there’s lots that could be done – any given part of the kit seems to benefit greatly from a little care and attention – but there’s other projects lined up once this one’s done, so I’m trying to resist the urge to go too far with it.

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