Totem Pole Studio



Inspired by the works of Roman "Jarhead" Lappat.



This started as a throwaway, test miniature, and ended up being a fun excercise in playing with colour and painting in a slightly more free, more improvised way.



This was originally a test miniature to try out a colour scheme of the Executioners Chapter for a commission job. So at the beggining it was painted in a sloppier, less precise way than what I usually try to do with my marines. But as the miniature and it's colours started to come together and as I saw how much fun I had painting this one, I decided to finish it as a display figure, but continuing that style of more spontaneuos painting that places less emphasis on precise brushstrokes and crispness, and more on playing with colour, contrast, atmosphere and applying paint in a less calculated way.



One of the main inspiration for this was the style of Roman "Jarhead" Lappat of Massive Voodo fame, whose minis rarely display the kind of brush stroke precision that a lot of painters strive for, and yet are always full of great colour combinations, atmosphere and "painterly" style.



While personally my tastes are aligned more with 'Eavy Metal like precision, this definitely was a fun way to spice things up a bit.