Hi Richard,

Nope, no error messages. Apparently the render engine assumes her face is supposed to be silver. Even though as I'm looking at it within DS it's her normal, flesh color & detailed facial skin.

I've done the render using the render window & also direct to file. I also tried it using IRay(default settings again), and got tired of waiting after several minutes so stopped the render. But even though it looked predictably grainy, it still showed the same silver face effect. I don't know why. The rest of her body is perfectly normal. I see vascularity in the rest of her body with no adverse effect or discoloration of her skin.