@Mousekiller - Because I have no priority to pump out a painted army real quick, I feel it frees me up to experiment and play a bit more so I wanted to do something different than the edge highlight method. And as I have been working with NMM I have found I end up doing a lot more pointillism than the traditional blending methods and decided to just roll with what felt good.
@Graishak - Thank you. Once I got over the intimidation of starting to work with NMM techniques, it became real fun to work with.
Here is the completed Terminator Sergeant:




I am really happy with everything about this mini EXCEPT the lettering. I definitely need more practice painting letters, it kind of sucks that the ULTRA is right in the center of the mini
