Sentinel Helmet - Model Progress

I've finished the helmet's shape for now. I was considering chamfering all the edges on the wings to produce the smooth shapes from the normal map, but no one's going to be that close unless they've blown the model up several times or imported into a 3d package. So, I made some really close polygons resembling the shapes and assigned all the hard edges to the same smoothing group.

There is a sun shape on the forehead where the red glow dot is supposed to be, but I'm not sure if I want to make that geometry or not.

This is really the only unique thing about the Sentinel Armor, besides the texture. It seems like everything else is exactly the same for all massive armors in Origins/Awakening.



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I came across a thread on the Warframe forums with a sketch for a certain frames's helmet redesign and, well, decided to give it a go. The sketch is front view only, so I'm using a side view from the wiki to get a head size.

Starting the Sentinel Armor Helmet

I took some time to blast through Warframe and level a lot of gear, but it's time I got back into making things. So, I've targeted the Sentinel Armor set from Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening.

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Come to think of it, I haven't heard a POST beep in a long, long time. Errors, sure, but POST? I don't think they do that anymore.

Going for A+ Certification

After studying for over 6 months, I've decided it's now or never for getting A+ Certified. There's always more and more stuff to learn, but if I keep waiting, I'm never going to be "ready". That, and since 2011, all future A+ Certs last 3 years instead of for life. So I'll have to recertify or pay a monthly fee and demonstrate my "Continuing Education" to Comptia.

I know my way around most PCs, but I tend to get stuck in my assumptions. An example I keep using goes like this:

Question:  A client calls and says their headphones stopped working this morning, but were fine yesterday. After going through numerous solutions, you cannot fix the problem. What do you do?

1. Research the problem on the Internet
2. Scold the client for being an idiot
3. Escalate the issue
4. Recommend the client buy a new set of headphones

4, while a valid solution, doesn't address the problem of the current headphones not working.
2 goes against best practices as outlined in the A+ book I'm reading. Also, I don't do that. Additionally, it isn't good for getting return clients.
1 is something I'd do off the bat while running the client through solutions I could think up.
3 looks like the best answer here. I can't fix the problem which means it could be a) something I've overlooked or b) this is a symptom of a much larger problem, not the problem itself. If escalation will solve the problem when I couldn't, I'll escalate it.

So, I chose 3. The correct answer was 1. Why? The test assumes once you get the call, you run through everything you can think of AND THEN you research the problem on the Internet. Everything is in steps. There's probably more to it, but I'm no psychologist.