I changed your usergroups after your promotion because someone didn't set something correctly, which meant you wouldn't have been able to set a custom username colour. This must have affected the display of your username. If you want it changed back I can do that or if you just want to use the same orange as before in your postbit you can set your custom username colour as #E9AB17.
I think with the custom models they usually use existing action figures (or whatever the hell they're called these days) and tweak them. Cid's face looks to me like it used to belong to a wrestling figure or something. Having said that I remember seeing custom models that really looked like the characters they were supposed to, but I think in those cases they managed to sculpt the face somehow.
Haha, love it. Barret has always been one of those characters that stood out for me, so it's pretty badass to see him like this. He looks more slim in here than he does in the game though! Losing weight, eh?!