02295: King Jurgen Heyerdal

[AEdge 3505]

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? 

 

[ub3r_n3rd 152256]

I think he looks great.

 

Hmm, maybe it's that interior of the cloak being too close to his hair color?

[wdmartin 3875]

You complain too much.  He looks great.  I particularly like the gradient of colors on the back of the cloak -- makes it feel much more like a real animal pelt than a single solid color would.

[Loim 17998]

Very well painted. 

[Pochi 11316]

His cloak is wonderful! I actually think he looks great! Most times we are our own worst critics.

[Peithetairos 2456]

I can also not see a single problem ;). Looks excellent. I especially love the naturalistic fur!

[Pingo 109314]

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.)

Edited June 27, 2016 by Pingo

[Nightwing 2918]

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.

[slowbro 165]

I'm jealous of how well you painted the back of the cloak!

[Glitterwolf 204784]

***** 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***

[buglips*the*goblin 93851]

I'm jealous of how well you painted the back of the cloak!

 

Agreed.  That fur is splendid.

[vegascat 5049]

He looks wonderful to me!

[KruleBear 4909]

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

[hiddenone32 5657]

Looks pretty awesome! If that's something you're disappointed in I should be utterly ashamed of most of my work.

[Inarah 42514]

He looks great.  If I had to criticize something I'd say he has too much of the grey-green going on and needs a touch of red of blue as a focal point somewhere.