The state of fact that a good amount of people here expressed the same concern about the paint app gives some weight to the statement.
Customers do have the right to JUDGE what they may or may not buy, and if a good amount of people expresses the same problem, maybe there's a point in their word.
Now, Averone can come here and tell everything's awesome and ARH is growing and is stronger than ever, but THE FACTS are that they expected to sell 200 Conan Sacrifice Exclusives, and they sold 50. They can't move pieces with 150-200 ES, and for a reason.
The Minotaurus has been the most well received one, and guess why - because the paint app on a non human figure impacts less on the viewer, since we don't have real life models to compare the statue to. That's why the painted Minotaurus looks ok, while Tarzan looks extra shiny and smooth to the point to look like plastic, or why the Angel of Darkness looks like a man with a wig.
And this leads me to the following part:
Arahom paint is flat. It's not a matter of knowing the most intimate styles of paint or something to lose sleep on with meta-artistic philosophy.
I don't need mad painting skills, I only need to COMPARE what ARH offers with what other companies offer, and the difference with the paint app is clearly visible.
This is an empiric proof to me, and obviously also to others, that if I take Tarzan and put him next to my Sideshow Diablo Overthrown barbarian, Tarzan is looking different. The skin paint doesn't look like skin, the hair don't look like hair and so on. Arahom's style is too basic and unnatural, just a flat paint application.
You can call it "his style" and be fine with it, nothing wrong, just don't tell me not to be critic about it when you try to make it look like an awesome paint application, 'cause I do have at least five amateur painters in a 30km range that could do much better.
