Final shine, I think the thing that is throwing off Metal Kooler is the greenish tint to him, if you desaturated your textures it could help, also maybe jsut add some more shiny parts and darker lines where there are supposed to be those joints. Hope that makes sense.
Friskie it's a good start. Maybe use some kinda emboss effect on the air holes. Also I would make the eyes bigger and more toriyama-ish...I know not really helpful, but just look at a lot of refs. you eyes look like rectangles while his have the side angled more. Hope that helps.
And here is an update on my Kankuro. I after I added the teeth it went up to like 2356 or something. The puppet is going to take a good amount of polys, hopefully I wont have to cut any out of this guy
. I'll keep you all posted. Thanks for your kind words Zabuza2k