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King Jurgen Heyerdal.

 

I'm a little disappointed in how this came out. It's one of the first Reaper minis that I owned but never got around to painting until now. I'm not sure where it went wrong. Maybe nothing is wrong with it and I just complain to much. 

 

What do you think? 

 

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The cloak is beautiful.

 

His general color scheme might be just a little flat. The shadows and contrasts are excellent, but the basic colors of his tunic, the cloak interior, his coloration and the weaponry all fall within a fairly narrow range of hue, value, and chroma.

 

But really he is silvery and subtle and beautifully painted.

 

(Just as a humorous observation, this figure is blatantly a riff on the classic old Marvel Comics Thor from the 1960s and 70s. You can see the echo of Jack Kirby's costume design in his outfit, and his name appears to be a portmanteau of forensic medicine historian Jürgen Thorwald and Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl.)

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That fur is marvelous! From the front,the colors aren't as striking as those you used on your other minis.

 

I'll gladly take him off your hands though, all your minis are amazing. Still waiting for you to make a "how to paint" YouTube. Whatever you're doing, I wanna do that.

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***** Ok Buddy, This is the Paint Police!!!***

 

*** You have been complaining about some excellent work! We cannot have that now can we?***

 

*** This is your final warning, next time you WILL admit that this is a masterpiece***

 

***Have a nice day***

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You complaign too much! Lol ::): the figure is perfect.

 

If anything could be improved, it would be the base. The snow is too white and uniform for the awesomely painted mini.ad some variaton in the snow (both level and color) maybe add a tuft of weeds/grass sticking through and you may be hapier about it

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