He's a completely independent, fully-articulated action figure and he even comes with a few accessories of his own. Splink has a copper and black finish and the kind of mean, big-toothed look of a Quake II monster. The detail is decent, running from very high quality in his small, H.R. Giger-style face with glowing green beady eyes and dog teeth, down to pretty scanty on the big, flat areas that make up the armor burnishes around his shoulders, thighs, and feet. He is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a Mandarin Spawn, though it's pretty clearly that this is the case because he needs to fit into the rest of a gestalt figure. Detail on Splink's rocket-pack.
Articulation is similarly oddball.
The neck rotates what looks like a full 360 degrees, but the shoulder-plates get in the way, limiting the range of movement to a scant ninety degrees or so. The weirdest thing about this guy's sculpt though has to be his gigantic feet. They look like something for a figure twice his size, but at least they provide a firm base for him to plant his feet. When standing free, he's not particularly poseable but is able to keep his feet with relative ease. That's the kind of trait you're looking for in someone who's ultimately to form a right leg though, I suppose.