great work, 9 from me..
a lot of "top" works of "top" painters on CMON are overrated, photoshopped or have "very good" pictures - with strong lighting from above they look a way better, with extremely good contast etc.
here we have a very nice miniature, 'natural' picture with no tricks with PS or lighting, cool idea and well executed..
i see some imperfections like lack of contrast on some parts, painting is a bit rough.. but anyway its a cool mini..