Fancy space-samurai armour is good; learning to look behind you is better.

You NEVER look behind. If you dont look behind, the monster never gets you. Its true in all horror movies! lol

Quite a bit different than I pictured but am happy to roll with it... carry on, my good Sir.

lol sorry if its not what you expected. Im thinking hull of a space ship, and his arms will be holding onto some pipping or something. I know you said one arm holding but, pose wise two arms make more sense to me. I dunno, let me know if you dont like this and want him doing something else or angled differently.

No no, mate - I am quite intrigued with your idea so happy to let you run with it - likely you will come up with something much better than what I had thought of anyway. Plus not being so constrained by someone else's concept the result is likely to be a lot better also.

One thing - if you have the Vanguard using a knife-like weapon - would it be possible to make it look vaguely crystalline and translucent? A warrior usually always has a combat knife on them somewhere for when talons just wont cut the mustard in hand-to-hand fighting (much easier to slip between the gaps in someone's armor). These combat knives are made of a very strong ceramic material with a monofilament cutting edge, the ceramic material being very crystalline in structure and partially clear like glass.

Thanks for the warning, will do!

lol i dunno why but this is giving me a ben ten sorta feel to it

In ben ten theres a species of four armed alien that he could turn into called Four arms. Big, red, super strong and great at meele combat.

yup thats who your guy reminded me of

That's really cool! I'm looking forward to the finished version but might wind up liking this one more!

It's looking very nice; interesting idea