How does one go about skinning monsters?

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evilgrins

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...this is probably really easy...

I've been hunting skins down for other reasons when it hit me that there's some impressive skins for Unreal1 monsters in the ut2004 Invasion. Like this one for the Warlords:

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I even went looking for more and found a few dozen good ones, like this wicked looking thing for the Krall:

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Thing is I've tried skinning monsters on maps before with mixed results. One time it worked great...but I haven't managed to do it again.

I went into monster properties, a specific monster for a specific skin, went under display, and under skins put the skin in I wanted to use. It worked, a variant Skaarj that is fairly amazing. However, when I tried it for the Warlord it didn't work even though I did the exact same thing.

Take me back to basics. How do you skin monsters?