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Does anyone have good advice/techniques for modeling scars?

Well, not the best technique, I am sure, but one I have used to good effect:
Press an x-acto blade into the area where you would like the scar. As the blade sinks in to the pewter, it rises on either side, creating an effect of "bulging flesh" that appears along the edges of a laceration.

Carefull when doing this, though. There's a very real possibility of comparing the miniature to the cut you just gave yourself...



Ghidorah

I've done the same thing to replicate the effects of laser burns. I take a knife and score a line down the side of the armor and then paint the raise parts silver with the groove being a little red-orange.