The piping on the other side

Added a tractor cap to his smoke stack in his branches.

Well after some honest criticism form a friend, I decided that my design was severely lacking in expression and style. So I went back to the drawing board and came up with something that had more of what I wanted. I took a few different designs and art pieces I had seen online and kind of fused them together to get something that fit with the story and gave more expression to what I wanted.
Its hard to stop and start over this late in the competition but I believe I need to and I know can get it done, just got work more efficient.

Love the last sketch !

This is a really fun and inventive design, loking forward to seeing it put together!

Thx, gpepper and yeoman.
I think the new concept is much closer to what I originally wanted in the first place. Should have spent more time on concept. Oh well live and learn. Have to charge into this model full steam though to make up for lost time.
Here's a quick render of the base mesh so far.

Hey Animeangel, sometimes you just gotta change things if your not totally happy with 'em mate, gotta say that the latest sketch is my favourite. Looks like your flying into this re-work big time...the base is already taking shape really well, keep postin' buddy, I wanna see how this bad boy turns out this time

C´mon men, you can do it, i really like the idea, reminds me like "wooden steampunk".

Good start on the mesh, have fun with the sculpt!

Thx for the good words guys!
Got quite a bit done on the base mesh. Still really rough though. Trying to get all the hardest pieces done first, namely the eyepiece. Still got to stitch them all together but its fast on its way. After that its more work on the body and base, then to sculpt and detail it.

close up of the face and brain case

Excellent work, this is gonna look great and you have plenty of time too

Robot Oaks are GO!