dae, no I dont' have any horses. Damn shame, LOL love them. Maybe someday.. If you got horses and your close to Tucson, let me know.. LOL

Eelco, thanks for the nice words. In a post soon I'll tell you about how I do it in depth. Yeah I do imagine the mesh like that a lot recently, because of other models I've worked on. I have more of an idea of what works for me and the results. Also there was a horse I did at a earlyer time that I learned a lot from. I used a lot of that knowing to help me decide where to place the edge loops. Worked great. Still might need to make alterations when I start deforming the skin part. I chose this way for the skin because I know a lot about what I want and just went right for it. For me its faster. and yeah there is still some edges and other things I have to take care of after I have all the verts pulled out. But more about this after a little bit, I need to get some things done right now.
BTW the mechanical parts I use a bit more different techniques on.. Even some box modeling.