Ya, I would state the same: It has too many polygons. It's okay to pump up the polycount as long as it get a better appearance through this. But I can see a lot of polys you really do not need for the overall structure of this model (besides, the topology is a bit distorted... you can bring down the polygon count even more with a reasonable topology-Edgeflow). Nevertheless: A cool style \:\)

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Tristan