Thanks for the responce, I agree, now I see it close up it does look every messy with all those hard lines on the highlights, especially on the armour, I'm happy with the hand, i wanted to blurr it as much as possible to surggest heat. it's got me excited tho, I'm off for another try.
I've never done sourced lighting effects myself so I'm no expert. But, I think your edges need to be smoother/softer to really make it believable. I like the hand area and could tell what you were trying to do there. Nice first effort on what I believe to be something very hard to accomplish.