By a long way, NOT the worst first skin I've seen. But the grid will be one of the hardest to pull off, as you'll probably slit your wrists before managing to get them to line up perfectly. Many a good skinner has been lost to the temptation of grid-like patterns!!
Here's a little bit of a preview of what I've been working on lately. This is my team's current skin for the XFG. Still not fully completed, still a little bit of re-aligning to do, some text changes, roof/rear needs some flash on it. I also put in some custom dds files that I made. I edited the grill, and headlights. Mostly just tinted, but the headlights have some decals on it to follow the stripes, I think it gives it a bit more of aggressive look. Anyways, enjoy and feel free to comment, I like feedback.