Thanks a lot for the kind words, guys! Hearing from fellow painters like John and Mauro is pretty humbling and also very encouraging. I couldn't say thanks enough to you fellas!
Rick, the skin is many layers of different colors, mottled loosely over one another, but I'll try to sum it up as best as I can:
-Primed with a light grey, as you can see on the armor and unpainted bits
-Stained with Createx Transparent (TP) Dark Brown, which was VERY thinned down and just brushed messily over all the skin (except for a couple of bits I'll have to go back and fix... ****!) You can see where it sloshed over onto his left leg's armor, so it doesn't matter how careful you are.
-Misted VERY lightly with LifeTone KB Flesh
-Mottled with LifeTone Tie-In-Brown
-Mottled with LifeTone Pure White
-Veins were then brushed in with Cerulean Blue and Cadmium Red watercolors, I think (too lazy to go check). It's actually quite important to use watercolors for this step, I found, as the acryllics I first tried with were simply too opaque and too dark for me to properly "sink down" into the skin
-Mottled with LifeTone KB Flesh
-Mottled with LifeTone Bone White
-Final mottling of LifeTone Pure White because I really like the way a greyish/whitish skin tone looks as opposed to something more yellow or human looking. Just what I prefer. I also find going over lighter colors with darker ones (I.E. mottling with bone/pure white then mottling with a flesh color) loses some of the white mottle work. I also think darker colors look better "deeper" in the skin layers. Again, just what I prefer and how I operate.
WHEW! And we're only half done! For the darker areas, I skipped the final pure white mottling in favor of a heavy misting of Golden TP Shading Grey, mottling VERY FAINTLY to "blend" a bit into the lighter skin areas. I then handbrushed on a jagged line with Createx TP Dark Grey, then went back in with Shading Grey to darken the... well... dark parts. I use the Sotar 20/20, so it was easy to stay inside the lines. I also knew from the beginning of this paintup I wanted to do something similar to what I did on the Bad Blood with black/white dots, but hoped to execute it a little better. Once I started brushing in the black dots and filling them with white inner dots, though, I began thinking there was just too much grey/white going on and not enough color contrast to the skin.
I had initially wanted to use Mars Red or even Payne's Grey for color variance, but worried they would be too stark against the other colors, so I opted to simply mist LifeTone Chestnut over the dark areas and out onto the slightly blended areas between the lighter and darker areas. Now I had another problem: it was just TOO orange, and I struggle sometimes with keeping things from looking like Power Rangers, because my eyes are very naturally drawn to bright, gaudy colors. This was remedied by very lightly mottling Golden TP Raw Umber Hue over the chestnut, which both darkened and blended it beautifuly. I'm VERY happy with the results so far. Everything else (hands, head) are the same colors already used, just misted here and there to give depth and contrast.
For the metallics, like I said I'm using all enamels, and all Testors (Silver, Copper) with the exception of the gold, which is something I found at Walmart, oddly enough. It's something that I believe is called, "Liquid Leaf," which is basically gold leaf just... liquidized! It gives the best metallica finish I've ever seen on a kit, and cleans up with the same Testor's thinner/cleaner I use for the other enamels, but it's not without drawbacks: until it's cured, it's VERY delicate to the touch, which I found out the hard way. Even just touching the uncured/mostly dried paint will cause it to wrinkle and ruin the finish.
As for the quality of the kit, the sculpt itself is very good, but from what I understand, Narin doesn't distribute this kit himself. He sold the sculpture/molds to someone else for distribution... At least I think so? Feel free to correct me on that.
Sorry for it being so long-winded, but I hope it helps. Thanks again, guys!