Sentinel - OZ GD 08

This was my other fun entry for our Aussie GD this year. It's a plastic sentinel, but I used plasticard to make the cockpit enclosed rather than open...mainly because I couldn't be bothered painting the crew, haha!

This is actually the first vehicle I've ever painted, so it was fun to try something new for a change, and have a bit of an experiment. Painting this figure was really just an exercise in weathering, and trying to create as much texture as possible on all the large armour plates.

I used masking fluid to create most of the big scratches and chips in the paintwork. After undercoating the figure, I painted the whole thing with a dark brown-grey colour, and then added some texture to the surface by flicking on different colours with a toothbrush. Then I applied the masking lfuid, using both a sponge and an old brush to create random shapes. Once this was dry, I re-sprayed the whole figure with white undercoat, and then painted the armour plates as normal with the light blue-grey colour. Once all the basic shading and highlighting was finished, I carefully rubbed off the masking fluid, revealing the dark chips underneath. And then I highlighted the under-edge of the chips, to give them a more 3D aspect.

I was very lucky to win the gold trophy at GD, because it was very close between a few figures. We have a strange category at our GD, which includes vehicles, huge tanks, monsters, warmachines...there was a fantastic giant, that easily could have won instead of me. But I guess the luck fell with me this time.

Guild Artisan,
Sebastian.