OK, you requested comments, here's a few. Overall, this is a really interesting color scheme; the red and green play off each other and make an exciting contrast. The miniature is way too glossy---the light reflecting off of various bits makes it difficult to see details, and difficult to see your attempts at NMM. The base is rather plain---spice it up with some bits for visual interest. Specifics: 1) it's hard to tell whether you used NMM techniques on the armor. I can see some on the shoulder pieces but it really doesn't come up to the brilliant reflective white that makes NMM believable. The flesh tones are very plain, and there's just too muych contrast between the very dark wash and the base skin tone. The blade, however, is quite good---the NMM is very believable, and you've successfully created the illusion of light on metal. Are those gems in the upper breastplate? If so, they should be painted as such, unless you wanted them to look like opals---very milky, but then they'd have an iridescence that is, admittedly, difficult to capture in a photograph. I gave this a 6. It's tabletop quality with the added niceness of the blade.
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