ok been a week or 2 since last update, went on a short holiday then got sick, anyway her's whats been done since the last update.
the clothing has folds painted into it. the reason why is that i'm going to use the polypaint and convert it to a texture map with uv master, make it an alpha and use inflate balloon in the deformation tool pallete to create the bases for the folds to clean up and edit.

 i've also got most of the mechanical arm essentially done and in place, i might be missing 1 piece of detail on the arm.
i'm still working on ideas/ plans on how to model/ sculpt the arm to animate the hookshot appendage coming from it. also how I'm going to create/ sculpt the piping, inorganic muscle fiber looking stuff underneath the arm.

also worked on the face a little more, still gotta work on the brow and forhead a little more, maybe the cheeks as well as make the eyes a little smaller/thinner.