THX1138 - cheers man, much appreciated. I've tried to keep it simple so you could easily have teams using the same model but looking quite different (capture the flag or rather capture the temple dog in this case... now thats an idea.. )

Gone back to the steed this morning and have sketched out a cute look for it.

As a side project I've got some great reference stuff for a realistic game samurai in full body armour and I could probably use the more dinosaur looking steed for that. Something along the lines of Turok meets a heavily armoured Shinobi.