Past the creation of the M6 Daisy power armor, the armor did not have artwork.
The inception of this power armor was the culmination of a development process including the M4 Sylph and the M5 Harpy before concluding with the M6 Daisy. The Daisy was a power armor intended to bridge the 'knight saber hardsuit' style KFY LAMIA armors went for, and the larger NDI designs (whom are the precursors for the Terratech-line of NAM power armor); the M6 Daisy itself ended up being more like Samus Aran's 'Gravity Suit' in 'Metroid'.
The Daisy Power Armor's article deliberatingly states that it has some ability to scale itself, along with being able to compensate with users of a smaller size using adjustements from the hemosynthetic insert. The default piece of artwork likely depicts a user of ideal size. This picture with Rolf is misleading because Rolf's unit of choice is an MCAS with Daisy-inspired pieces on it, and Rolf himself is someone whom had a unit custom built to his size in preparation for the final
Miharu mission (the MCAS
Shikamaru). Were he really in a Daisy, the lower leg portion of the Daisy would be large enough to accomodate the whole foot in length, the upper leg piece would be adjusted to account for where the humanoid wearer's knee would bend. The same adjustments would be done for the elbow and yes, the hand would come short of the wrist. Control of the gauntlet would still be possible through the assisted strength it provides and the dexterity lent by the helmet's man-machine interface. The Daisy could adjust significantly to accomodate wearer size, but that required fitting in a ship's armor bay before an 'outlier' case would have been ready to go.
In effect, Rolf is an extreme example of how the Daisy would adapt to service a small user. Rolf made a deliberate choice during the
Miharu plot to resize himself to 5'2" so he could fit in the Mindy to later find out he still neither had SPINE or SLICS, and a growing concern that the Daisy would 'wedgie' him. Later adjustments on the M6 from Doshii Jun worked on actually increase the Daisy's capacity to deal with extreme (perhaps to help Rolf too, given Doshii Jun was in the same plot... though I suspect the concern was aired by Nekos wanting to use it too beforehand). Again a demonstration that the Daisy being an helmet taller was fully intentional.
I don't believe this is wrong. I believe this is
different. That's what the Daisy was supposed to be.
However, after the Battle of Yamatai, Ketsurui Fleet Yards and Origin Industries have fielded the
Daisy II. The M6-2 is significantly streamlined lighter and smaller, much more in scale with a nekovalkyrja rather than a human. In effect, if Star Army designers felt the Daisy stretched the logistics inside ships tailored mainly to support the Mindy (since Yamatai has preference for light armors, and the Daisy was taller), the Daisy II fulfill the goal of standardizing the M6 series.
I therefore submit that the
Daisy M6-1's article's text is not in error. Some people simply did not account for the difference (and I don't think that's the article's fault). Rolf's custom armor
Shikamaru should probably not be on it, though. If correction was needed, it has already been accomplished in the Daisy II.