Preparing to Dominate

I'm pretty excited about Dominance War V and while I'm waiting I figured I would get some concept and modeling practice in before the main challenge. This is Astaroth who is the Technomage class from the Pre Dominance War Challenge that was held in December. I'm modeling the armor in 3DS Max using planes with a Mesh Smooth and Shell modifier applied on them to create that look of layered metal. I'm working on the main spinal column now now and am trying to make it look really high tech. like the spinal column for Doc Ock's tentacles in Spider Man 2

Oh by the way I'll be on GameArtisans team for the main Dom War challenge. My handle is Darkstrife ..