Ok so here we go.

I thought I would start at the back for some reason. I have cut up my geometry to make the whole process a little easer.

Here is a test shot. Mainly to test the lights really. Want to get that bit done right first then I can see what I am doing.

There is a little bit with the hull texture on which is looking aright as a base.

I am getting some funny artefacts on the model, not sure why they are there so I decided to apply a basic blinn to see what happened and you can see for yourself.