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Face only a bigger gargant could love
I'm doing some rough planning for the head.. Going to scrap the eyes that the thing has, as I don't like the 'stitching' across them, and replace them with sometihng a bit more square-ish - I think square would help me build cabling and stuff attaching to it at the sides and wrapping around to the top of the head, so the Zzap gun has some power. The teeth are going to be plated onto the outside of the jaw.. probably only 4-5 on the bottom jaw, but big ones. The teeth in the original concept art look a little unusual, in that they seem to face outwards instead of forwards.. it's like someone took the normal jaw and turned the teeth 90 degrees. Not sure I'm so fond of that, so I'll probably just bolt the teeth on the exterior of a curved jaw.
I'm not sold on the ears on the original sketch. I think I'll build the head and either make them removable or decide later.
One thing I'm noticing might be an inconsistency: The torso is armor-plated, which helps make the curve of the body more angular in nature, but the head seems to be, from what I read off the image, one big solid curved piece without plating, just riveted on as sort of a front 'plate' to cover machinery hidden behind it. I don't know if I should make the head one big curved piece and start working with it like that, or make one big curved piece and then put armor plating all over the exterior to break it up much like the torso.
June 9th, 2010