Perhaps you could select the polys where the main will "grow" out from and then do an Extract | Region to get a new object. Then Intrude the big underside face slightly to fix up the geomery. Extruding from that may may work. Or you can switch over to Art Of Illusion, and use the hair growing script to grow the main and tail, which I'm sure would end up looking much better. A friend of mine uses AOI scripts to do that sort of thing and they look sweet. Of course, there is a new app to learn, if you don't use it alread. :-P jon

 
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