Ya know that even though most of the modelers and skinners do not take requests, they're extremely nice and helpful people. If you ask them for advice on how to do the stuff yourself, they are really the best! Take General Frank for example, he gave me a lot of good advice on how to start on doing models myself, I just PMd him once. And I'm pretty sure most of them will help you along, even though they wont do the work for you.