Rating: 8 nice job. The horse's flesh is a little too much like the black/grey of the caparison, maybe using a brown horse instead?
And, i really dont like the sculpt of the horse... the head is out of proportion, and i dont know whether its the sculpt or your painting, but the horse looks like it's thinking "*sigh* do i have to do this rearing pose again?" or some other dreary thought
nice paint job tho...
Rating: - I took the color scheme from a book.The ears are covered by the caparison,as you can see from the last pic(maybe to avoid beeing cut in battle)
Rating: 8 Very good job. However, the horse flesh is perhaps too close a match for the black of the caparison, and the horse's eyes are expressionless. Easily fixed.