unless ive got my information wrong, if your waiting for 1.2 to release the model you wont need to do any custom animations, from what i have heard is the server sends the animations to the client, since there is too many of them in 1.2, (i may have gotten my info mixed up) if any of the esf teamdoes find there way to this post can you explain how xactly this will work with custom models?, as long as the custom model matches the skeleton of the one installed on ther server it should be fine right? (or am i just confused)
if you were wanting to do any fancy animations for him, or anything other than default animations, you should go ahead and do it for 1.1 while you can,