I like to organize and break these post up,
Heres a screen cap of his uvs

 

the edges are cut off (all of the shells are on the 1/1) with 2 instances of stacked uvs on the hands and the shackles on the hands

 

 

for the upcoming texture work  ill be looking at

Its a good book for reference, namely the character on the front it a monochromatic blue ill be making color passes very soon

first and foremost now since I have unwrapped the model I can transfer the normals  which will add  complexity to my model.