What do you have against the usage of vector brushes? It looks great how Caoz uses them. The results looks great. I wish I would be that adept with the usage of PS brushes. Teaz-R's skins also look great, but they are meant to be racing skins. Caoz is making difficult designs with using public brushes. On drift skins like these they just match. His composings are still a product of his brain. If you know a better way to get a fancy result like this without using brushes, with not more time than putting 5 hours in one skin than tell us. The result counts.
@Teaz-R: Puristic like an LX4. Simple but nice to look at.
I can send you my psd. The actual 2048 jpg is saved with a high compression because of the 1MB limit on Photobucket. Uncompressed (quality 12) it has a size of nearly 4MB.