Wow - that looks great, especially the feet and legs. All of the parts are well proportioned to one another. I'd like to see the hands from a different angle, too. I've done cartoon-style characters in the metaballs modeler in RDS 5.5, but was never able to get the hands quite right. All of your observations about IK and linked objects are true. Unless they've made changes since RDS, you'll find even more trouble if you try to scale the completed figure (the poor guy will look like he stepped on a land mine). You'll be better off building your scene around the figure rather than re-scaling your figure. If anyone has a way around the hotpoint/scaling/linking/unlinking mess please post it. Great work Nebula! JB