steellegionnaire85 Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Gentlemen, I am getting ready to paint my sentinels. I play Steel Legion. I was wondering if it's worth painting them two tone camo grey and green or just monotone grey. I am going to use eshin grey and ogryn camo similar to the standard Steel Legion camo. What are your takes on painting sentinels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nismogrendel Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I don't do camo on mine, I just did grey paint heavily weathered. Nuln oil over the whole thing, typhus corrosion on rivets and leg joints, sponge leadbelcher all over the place to look like the paint was worn off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Acid Dog Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 I camo mine (or at least I will once I decide to paint them), but my vehicle paint scheme consists is just a basecoat, wash, drybrush, then quickly painting lines in brown for the camo, washing said lines, and a final drybrush. Whether or not you decide to apply camo really just depends on how fast the paint scheme is and how patient you are. Mine's fast and I'm not particularly patient, so it works out just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Either would look great. Sentinels don't have that much space to paint an overly complicated camo scheme on but two tone would work easily. Sentinels sit in both the infantry and armour categories so you have some leeway in how to do them :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guilloom Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Agree with WarriorFish, a two-tones camo scheme is quite easy to paint and rather comely. However a guy at my local GW painted on its own a rather complex urban camo scheme, with shades from blue to grey, with black touches, made of tiny little colour square. Quite impressive look. Mines got a two-tones, but needs a bit more weathering (Riza rust and Nuln oil as soon as I come back in a country where GW exists !) : that kind of camo's fine, even if usually overwhelmed with details. Here it is, if you need an (beginner) example. http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/313922-xiv-kataris-wip-fluff-and-stuff/page-2?do=findComment&comment=4267470 It also depends if you wanna link your sentinel to infantry or armor, then the painting should, I suppose, fit the main scheme of your inf or your vehicle. For that Sentinel I painted, as marching along the troopers, it got a brown-grey camo, but the two others I plan to buy before the year ends will go all grey, which gonna be the main tone of my LRs, self-propelled arty, etc. That's totally up to you, just find a scheme you enjoy ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
our_baz Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I went full bore, and painted mine in a WWI style dazzle camo. Personally I like to tie all my armour in the same theme. End of the day it's your army, run with what you like. Happy painting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
march10k Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 camo for me...base color, then two sets of splotches...one splotch type is a lighter shade of the base color, the other is a two-tone splotch that contrasts, and has a little dark spot in the lighter of the two contrasting tones...looks more complicated than it is, and it's simple enough to apply on any surface that'll accept two-tone camo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nismogrendel Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 I went full bore, and painted mine in a WWI style dazzle camo. Personally I like to tie all my armour in the same theme. End of the day it's your army, run with what you like. Happy painting I was checking out your gallery baz, that camo style looks awesome. Hadn't seen much 40k stuff painted w that pattern before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
our_baz Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 I went full bore, and painted mine in a WWI style dazzle camo. Personally I like to tie all my armour in the same theme. End of the day it's your army, run with what you like. Happy painting I was checking out your gallery baz, that camo style looks awesome. Hadn't seen much 40k stuff painted w that pattern before. Cheers glad you like it! I wanted something unique for my armour, granted the camo is about a useful as a sniper rifle on an ogryn, but the idea in my head looks good. Shame it takes an age to paint tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
march10k Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Looks amazing...more appropriate for battlefield gothic, I agree, but totally badassed. Actually, this one: Is enough to make a man cry...and not so useless in an urban setting. Out in the wilderness, it would stick out like a sore thumb, there are no straight lines, regular shapes, and such in nature...but man damned well builds things out of polygons...so this would virtually disappear in a urban ruins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmo Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 I did mine 2 tone (not urban cam I know..) but this was to make it blend in with the rest of my vehicles and figures for the sake of consistency. At the end do whatever you feel happy with as they are your little plastic soldiers ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracklingvoice Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 I don't have pictures, but I ended up making a template out of a few layers of painting tape (the blue kind) and a layer of cardboard from a box. I used a screw bolt for the hex shape and then moved it around on the tape to make a shape that I could place at certain spots on the model. My vehicles are now getting a base coat of Mechanicum Standard Grey, and then I break out Karak Stone for the second color. It's random enough that they all look a little different, with the little imperfections that real combat vehicles actually have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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