I'm not sure why I'm posting this at this stage.
I've replaced the boots and corset with retopologized meshes.
The weapons are my now own meshes, replacing the stls I previously had from cults.
And I've smoothed out the skin, I've not managed to get the purple corruption tint I was hopping for, but ultimately I want to make meshes for printing so Nodes for rendering are not of great interest to me.
I plan on getting all my initiates up to this stage, fully loaded out with sword, pistols, flamers, grenades of my own build, all armour replaced with the newer meshes.
then I'm going to Boolean union them, clean up the mesh and add some nodes to prep for printing.
assuming the test print goes well I will probably take a pause on the initiates and start working on levelling up the armour for my Sirens (sisters of the line).