With no disrespect intended I struggled to understand some of your comment, but I think I have the gist of it. It's not neccessarily my painting skills that are at fault but rather my photograpic and image manipulation skills that are wanting?
If I repost larger, better cropped and more focussed images then I might achieve higher scores? I'll give that a try. The issue with this one I think was that I tried to make a collage of all the angles I'd photographed and failed at that more than anything else. Saying that for my first 'Fantasy' figure I suppose a 6 is reasonably good. That said all of my mini's seem to only score 6. I suppose the best thing about this though is that it shows I have lots of room for improvement. The bad thing is that I could need to improve my painting, my photography, my image editing/manipulation, or I need to make better cooler mini's (which when you're on as tighter budget as I am is a little tricky) or I need to do all four. Please note I'm not getting at you, just commenting on the inherant subjectiveness of the voting system.
Usually I don't go for miniatures like that. as you asked very polite, I think there are many answers, not only mine. You should start with some (mostly subjective, but fitted by common sense) articles. See "Forum->posts->"advanced search" and look out for everythin that fits (Table Top Quality|Rating|Voting)
As for your miniature, Imho you fit criterias for tabletop quality with: a) creating a base with simple standard b) Having all areas painted c) Having some highlight or shading by any standard (mostly, any ratings with 5 go without that, but for me its then a desperate 4)
You made a six point view with my good angles +1, you cut the reasonable with almost the same scale. But its mostly a white background on a high exposured photo. MAYBE there is a blade with silver shadings on black surface, which represents weathering, MAYBE there is some shading and highlightning of the skintone, but ZZZZUP, patience gone, next picture. Thats the cruel way it works. See also for additional hints in "Articles" maybe a start can be "camera tips" and "working with gimp/photoshop", which are rated high, because the include good tips.
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