These are a few new renders of my model.
tried out a few diffrent techniques to see what produced the best renders.

this is vray with an sss skin shader:

Produced two additional maps for this and i think this is my favourite out of the renders iv produced so far.

I then used this same light rig and set up and used placed a background on and added some assets in so test it out. results are below.

Marmoset renders:

really not likeing these but wanted to try it out. appears that it works better to render assets not characters,

Then used vray high intesity render with black background and sss skin shader