EXACTLY!

I SUCK at character modeling, but Kevin has me making a tut on Modeling a shark, so it looks like I'll be learning a lot along the way with the rest of you.

That's what's great about...

Sorry Boomji, it looks like I forgot that Kevin has me on another video right now, so that mouse video will have to wait.

No biggie though, like I said, I think a combination of the biRail2+ tool,...

It worked easiest for me with birailing cv curves.

I'm having problems with Maya right now, but if you give me a day or so, I'll have a SMALL video tut for you to see how I did it:)

Actually, you answered your own question a bit i think:)

That's where I would start.
Since it is not an object(s) that needs to deform, you can use a number of ways such as:

Booleans
Birail...