Marko Siitonen

This miniature was painted already in 1999 to be a Mourning Wolf -chieftain in another of Target Games' game, Warzone. So the look of it is very basic, with limited use of colours and a "naturalistic" look.

The moment I saw this mini I imagined it to be blonde, a bit of arctic character even though the clothing doesn't quite point to that direction. This original vision;) is also the reason for the cape, which is supposed to be somekind of a snow animal...maybe a big cat. The only things which don't quite match with the naturalistic look are the metallic parts, and the reason to that is that I still wanted the character to fit in the scifi -setting of Warzone.

The painting job was simple after deciding on the colours. The cape, hair and loincloth were done with multiple washes and drybrushing. The metallic parts were done by painting the base black and drybrushing with metal. After this the copper was painted in.

The skin took the most of the time, basically because there's a lot of it and because it IMHO needs to look good especially in this mini because it is the thing the viewers eye concentrates on...and I don't mean only the pointy nipples here! I blended the highlights of the skin to be quite strong and painted an equally strong makeup for the same reason.

The base is a basic base for my gaming-minis, sand glued on, painted green and drybrushed up to yellow.

All in all I liked this miniature immediately when I saw it. Actually enough to ask my brother (whose mini it is) to be allowed to paint it...;)

Marko Siitonen