mike, I have an item similar to that, with a similar no. of sections modelled sevl. yrs ago by
a guy at "the other site", but in his case it was a conforming figure.  this was an early poser
modeller who did the first realistic muscle morphs for the p3 figures - strideri IIRC.  I didn't find out
what he did about geom switching, but it was easier conformed to a no-gens figure.

p.s. the poses are looking very good IMVHO.