Sentinel
Cygnar Sentinel, shield guarding your Warcasters
With the most recent errata having change Shield Guard to be more useful, I wanted to get the Sentinel painted up, ready for use with the low-ARM casters like Kara and Caine. Not too much to discuss regarding the painting here, pretty standard for my Cygnar techniques, except for the top of the chassis. For me, painting the circular highlights on the top of the shoulders is insanely difficult, to the point where I can’t seem to accomplish it. I certainly made attempts with both the Charger and Lancer and I made multiple attempts on this one. Without much success I instead turned the problem upside down. Rather than base-coating with the mid-tone (Cygnar Blue Base), I base coated with the highest highlight (a mix of Cygnar Blue Highlight and Frostbite). Then I layered all the darker colors up to it instead, as shading around a circle is much easier than highlighting out from one. I can’t really explain why that is, but there you have. This was a big experiment for me and I had my doubts, but it turned out great. The only thing I would change is to have based with straight Frostbite instead, to give it an even brighter highlight.
The shield that makes the Sentinel what it is
The shield took a couple tries, I had a hard time getting the brown to blend well and looking at the macro photos, I should’ve given it another try as it still isn’t great.
Another view of the Chaingun
The Chaingun is a cool looking piece of equipment. I went with a leather belt for the bullets to give some different color to the model.