Hehehe ... I won't call it "brave". It's more because I'm kinda lazy. If there've been some available for him I would have bought them and never tried to build some (lol does that sentence make sense? ^^).
And they've been easy to build (not to rig) for me because the feet "include" most of the design. Its more difficult for me to design than to create something arround a design.
All my 3D experience comes from my job as a technical drafter. Give me some technical Stuff and I can build what ever you want, but when it comes to organic or natrual design (can't find the right word for it ^^) ... what I try to say is that all the things I create tend to look kinda technical and clean.

KK, nuff said. ^^ There are more tutorials to explore :)