Hi,

I did some digging around in google and found the solution.

I created a shader (Blinn) and applied this to faces of the UV set (mapped prior) and then via Hypershade created a file node (UV snapshot painted in Photoshop) and linked it to the Blinn shader via the colour channel.

I then opened the Relationship editor > UV set editing window and linked the UV set to the texture under the Blinn shader and the texture appeared on the model.

Thanks guys for all your help.

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