Imperial Guard Sentinel

A very special thanks to Sebastian Archer for contributing to our site. Sebastian has won four 1st Place Golden Demons since 2005 and his work is an inspiration to painters all over the world.

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.

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