Okay, it's been two days since playing with poser figures (actually, I'm using DAZ), and it seems the main issue is the truly dreadful shoulder area, and the rather low abs the rest I can live with. After a lot of tweaking, I can get Michael down to a fairly realistic human height! But other than that, I can still get a good view of various positions I may need and so on. I'll just keep referencing my photos. I have survived with out 3d in the past, after all ;)