I used it for this. It's supposed to be robot or android or something. Not sure.
Anyway, I was given some pictures, here's what I came up with so far.
Wings3D.
1,539 quads.

There won't be any exchange of the object; so I guess I'm safe on that score.
I'll have to rig it. I'll use Max for that.

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