Problem, Skin not showing correctly

Well heres my problem. Im new to skinning so forgive me for my ignorance. So i edited the Blademaster skin, and i converted it to blp and all that. and i imported it. Now the skin does get imported because it affects the blademaster when i imported, and by that i mean that it shows. The problem is that it looks weird, infact, all i see is just red spots, where i edited the model, in this case i just did the body and face, and then the rest of the body is invisible. i don't know what im doing wrong, so if anyone has encountered this problem and knows what to do i would appreciate the help. thx

ok, well i have fixed the problem, i believe the problem was related to alpha editing , and i don't know anything about that, but i happen to go to the warehouse and look at some tuts and found a tut on a similar problem. and it worked. ok now for another problem ....sigh....so many things to learn


well i wanted to skin some of the custom models that i just happen to dl from the site, but i can't seem to get the skins to work on the models , how can i make sure that it works correctly with that model? is the file paths or do i have to some how merge the skin to the model b4 hand. thx