[T-LoW]

They're beautiful and the belial looks actually threatening...

[BrotherBryon]

Shivan Comm Node!

[Cyborg17]

 

I would only just change the alternating parts on each of the arms. I'm not sure exactly how you should treat it instead, but it doesn't quite look shivan.  This is one hard model to tackle though.  Kudos!

[Commander Zane]

Oh damn.

[Kolgena]

Looks very protoss. I think it's too round.

Despite that, still looks pretty good.

[rscaper1070]

I think it looks perfect. I wouldn't change a thing.

[Rodo]

Looks great, don't change a thing.

[General Battuta]

Excellent work.  The core and spinner look great. I'm not a big fan of the arms; I think the curves and 'scimitar tip' cutouts are a little uninspired. That's all the feedback I've got, keep it up.

[Hades]

Excellent work.  The core and spinner look great. I'm not a big fan of the arms; I think the curves and 'scimitar tip' cutouts are a little uninspired. That's all the feedback I've got, keep it up.

I have to echo this. The arms look off to me as well.

[Droid803]

You must construct additional pylons.
Looks nice though. I do also share the sentiment about the "arms".

[Dragon]

Indeed, they certainly didn't "feel" like that on the retail model. They were less like blades and more like some sort of "umbrella". The core and arms both look great though.

[FSW]

The Comm Node looks very cool, but the big smooth curves on the main arms seem stylistically incongruous with the rest. Could the tips of the arms be made more jagged and vicious?

[BrotherBryon]

Well I might be open to doing something like Axem did on the mid section of his gas minor with the shield like structure punctured by a spike in the center on the ends. The arms on the other hand are limited, I'm open to suggestion on the top part of the arms but the bottom part would require altering the entire bottom structure of the center piece as well and that would be entirely too much work. It took forever to get the concave arches of the bottom structure to work and I'm just not willing to part with them. Especially considering that was the part I struggled the most with, the angles and structure in that area are with out doubt the hardest part to do any thing with that doesn't involve just making it a simple boxy strut with a few panels or recesses.

[BrotherBryon]

So, a week and no viable suggestions other than I hate the arms change them. I find myself loosing interest in this project.....

Not being pissy here just stating that I'm lost, have no idea how to proceed and I'll even consider reworking the whole damn top and bottom sections at this point if a very good, community tolerable suggestion comes my way.

[SypheDMar]

I thought Battuta gave some nice critiques on the arms. What I'd suggest is making the jagged indents underneath less regular/uniform and more angular. I'm thinking of a Nightmarish Clam Shell or a Batwing-looking thing. That's the best I can describe what I'd like to see. As been said before, everything else looks great.

[The Dagger]

The only thing that comes to my mind is to make it look more like a claw.
That's the feeling I get from seeing the original shivan comm node:

[General Battuta]

Yeah, I can definitely get behind that.

[redsniper]

Definitely needs some kind of sharp corner or "joint" in it instead of just being a smooth sweeping curve like in that WIP pic.

Everything else seems spot on.

[BrotherBryon]

I'll give the claw thing a go and see how it turns out.

[BrotherBryon]

I like the results, did some additional detailing on some of the other pieces as well.