Just to bump this thread again - this is what I'm working on, modeled in Silo and displaced with ZBrush. Not really ready, looks much too much like plastic and I've not conformed it up to now. 

Motivation welcome, suggestions too. 

A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
-"Amazing Grace" Hopper

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