For your entertainment here is a stupidly big pic of the arm showing the elbow pad and the perfect reflections. It was a nightmare to keep the surfaces flush across the whole of the arm, but I cracked it! To do it I built the whole thing as one big NURBS surface, using the trim tools to get the correct shapes. Then I converted them all to polygons, extruded the edge to give them depth and beveled the lot! One day i`ll do a quick animation of it and post the movie! (and one day i`ll attach the thumb!)