R@nSiD, I don't know what a paint effects render is. I'm assuming that is a Maya plugin? I'm a Lightwave guy. What about the lighting do you think is wrong? So I can try to fix it.
I'm glad you like him.

severinianthony, I started out thinking all silver, then I tried the gold and it just looked better, I actually thought of making the chain gold too but Then I thought that gold chainmail is really just impractical. gold is too soft an heavy (not to mention expensive)to make the chain solid, and plating would look ugly very quickly. On the other hand I was trying to keep it as simple as possible while giving the appearance of complexity. On the third hand (if your keeping track), I found from experience that if you have too much gold it stops looking like gold.