Thanks! Although it should be noted this model isn’t fully posable–the upper legs basically cannot move forward or backwards at all, the upper arms cannot be brought too far forward (or the shoulder armor pops off), and the ankles cannot bend forward at all due to the rahkshi torso shoulder pieces being used as the lower leg armor.
Otherwise, it has full articulation in the knees, elbows, hands, and neck. So you can still put it in some pretty neat poses.
As for the asymmetrical look, I experimented quite a bit, and felt that this final rendition was the best look (given the parts I wanted–I imagine using the white rahkshi in lieu of the green would look the best, but alas, I need those Lehrak staff pieces for the middle spines). This model would also be asymmetrical regardless (due to the colors of the back shells, shoulder armor, and mold of the spine pieces), and my first color scheme for this model was ‘equally asymmetrical’ (ex. entire left side of the model was black, right side brown, and middle colors green), but that ended up looking a bit unappealing. And since this model would still have to be asymmetrical anyway (and I still preferred the appearance of a semi-split down look), this is what I went with.
(I am curious to see what a solid color, or two-tone, version of this model would look like though, with two Panrahk spine molds and still using the Lerahk staff pieces as the middle spines.)
@TheMOCingbird Yep, good catch. The upper arm movement is a bit limited, and even more than the ball-joint actually allows; I’ve made a note in the instructions about this.
I also really like the upper arm construction, I was running out of pieces when getting to the arms, and was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to make them look bulky enough. The original design just had the three pieces attached normally (ball joint to socket 3x)–this gave the arms much greater articulation (the two arms could actually hold one staff together, like the classic rahkshi), but they looked pretty spindly and a bit awful. The current construction looks great for how simple it is, and as you said, like real musculature.
And thanks, I have a few more ideas for combiners, so you can expect me to post here at least quite a few more times!
Edited for Double Post - BioKnight