What's A Bit Of Anachronism Among Friends

The button-counters might be irritated by the mish-mash of Prussian and Imperial German uniforms and paint schemes, but this is 40K! Today I spent a lot of time painting and managed to paint the Sentinel from undercoat to finished as well as doing the understrength 3rd Squad and the officer commanding Blue Platoon (which doesn't yet exist).  

This was originally the Minka Lesk figure from Games Workshop, but I gave her a headswap and a new left arm, turning her into a Lieutenant for my army. As is traditional after taking the photo I noticed I'd missed the rank pips on her collar

This gives you a nice view of her fancy scabbard and very plain backplate

3 Squad, Red Platoon (well, most of them - they're missing four troopers) and Blue Platoon's LT all together

The drum-mag on the autogun is a nice touch, and with 41st Millenium tech it probably contains some ridiculous number of caseless rounds

A nice shot of all the backpacks and tunics from the rear

With the Sentinel, I ended up deciding to riff on the WW1 German Buntfarben-Anstrich scheme. It's similar (but different) to the scheme I applied to the Leman Russ I did a couple of years ago, and painted up nice and easily with some heavy stippling using an otherwise pretty dead brush.

I'd ummed and ahhed over how to set this up, and then decided the armoured option was a) less work to paint and b) looked cooler. The lascannon is a handy bit of anti-tank punch too!

The freehanded '1' on each side was a bit annoying, I had to trim both sides to get them looking vaguely equal

The business end - I like the effect of gloss varnish on black for the vision blocks, while you can see the nice finish the stippling gave the camouflage, too

I kept weathering to a minimum, just a little bit of metallic drybrushing across areas that might be chipped and damaged in use

 Phew! Photos at last!

Painting Points:
Today: 12
This Week: 27
2025: 104