Alright here's where I'm at with the Manticore. The biggest change has been moving the wings back so the insertion point wasn't directly on top of the shoulder joint, I wasn't sure about the change before I tried it but it's definitely an improvement. While I was messing with that I integrated all the 'fingers' properly as well and gave the wings a blockout sculpt.
I've started to play around with spikes through the mane and the tail, I like the direction the mane is going but I need to work out a treatment for the tail I'm happy with. I'm thinking of having some sort of lightly scaled/plated look along the top that can run into the tip variations... this could probably be used on the wings as well to tie it all together.
Anyway let me know what you think or if you have any ideas!