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Just completed the base. Tell me what you think and what can be done better, and please be brutally honest with me


Greetings


-=Edit - Changed the title. Despite the asterisks, the word was still blatantly obvious. - Lorek =-

That looks pretty fantastic

So sick. I love this. Great posing and painting on the melting Sentinel.

As cool as the sentinel is, I like the squished guardsman even better. Awesome model!

Awww poor sentinel.... Nice painting and damage.

Nice and crisp! I really want to paint my own riptide right now .

How did you do the molten metal? Whenever I try something like that, it looks like crap.

Nice! Where did you get the idea for this because my GW has one with a ridetide also kicking down a sentinel. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=640548429304668&set=pb.246008885425293.-2207520000.1373316017.&type=3&theater

The idea? I thought the base was quite empty, and there had to be something cool to pose him, with all the free moveable joints and so on. And my standard enemy is an Imperial Guard Player, so one thing led to another I am waiting for his face ;P But cool to see that someone had a similar idea^^



As for the Sentinel and the molten metal:

First, i bought a used Sentinel on Ebay for about 3 Euros. It was gruesomely painted >_> Then, i picked a screwdriver, and cracked his legs. He got repositioned on the base. Then, i used the very same screwdriver, ehated it up on a lighter and drilled holes through the plastic. With that, the molten palstic formed those holes. After i was done, i took the lighter and held it to the Sentinels side for a couple seconds. I repeated this a couple of times, and thus got the twisted armor plates and stuff.
For painting it was easy. I painted the whoel Sentinel first (Caliban Green, drybrushed Moot Green, heavy Agrax Earthshade Wash, drybrushed Leadbelcher, painted emtal parts with it too, washed those parts with Nuln Oil, some Auric Armor Gold on the eagles, done)
Then i painted the glowing bits with very thinned colors in this order, each step more centeres to the holes: Khorne Red, Evil Sunz Scarlet, Troll Slayer Orange, Yriel Yellow, White Scar.
There was no magic to it. Watery paint and not waiting till it dried, thus mixing the colors.

Cool molten effect.

Cool model

Here, gentlemen, we have a clear case of head envy. The riptide, obviously compensating with those huge weapons, saw the sentinel, and, without doubt, its underdeveloped xeno brain saw in it a huge head on legs. Now, as the riptide battlesuit has only a tiny head to show, with its otherwhise massive proportions, it took the only recourse known to the primitive culture of the inhuman. It asserted its dominance through what we call "massive overkill". May the emperor have mercy on the sentinel pilots soul, for he'll have none to spare on the tau.

Imperial scholar mode of: Great model. I love some well done white and the effect on the sentinel is striking.

Nicely done

Awesome. I like how his pose is clearly that: a pose. It gives the model panache.

Cool idea, I have in my head a similar base for a Riptide - just need to find time to do something for myself these days

Very well done. Your white paint choice is really well executed. The base really makes the model. Please post more of your work.

I hate that its an ig, but I LOVE the effect you've done lol. amazing job.

I don't like the rear foot facing. It should be turned out more or turned in more. The perfect 90 degree angle to the front foot looks fine on open ground in a firing position, but awkward when walking up an obstacle.

Walk around your house with a stick as a gun, put your foot up on a chair and look at what your back foot is doing. It's not a perfect right angle, it's generally slightly off to the front or back.

Since I like sentinels I find this model a bit off putting and distasteful, however your paint job is pretty darn good and makes it look like the little chicken walker put up a fight.

Awesome model. But Im an IG player so inside II'm like "noooooo".

@ Rented Tritium

Yeah, i know it looks a bit off. I originally intended to turn him more to the front. The problem was....the damn Sentinel was too high. If i had standed the rear foot directly onto the base, the other foot would not have been able to sit on the sentinels deck. Thus i had to place a base and a resin scenic piece beneath the rear foot to uplift it. And the placing (and glueing) on that thing was pretty damn hard, i nearly threw it out the window The only way to make it stick and fit was to turn the foot around a bit.
But i can live with that

The effects on the sentinel are top notch. I can't tell if the guardsman has brains leaking out of his head or if he's just in possession of an incredible mane of curly locks.

Haha It is a Vostroyan Firstborn: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Vostroyan_Firstborn#.Ud1AsUFM9Fs

He was part of the Cityfight Special Edition which came out a couple of years back. Expansion Rulebook, some buildings and a whole unit of Vostroyan Infantry, 3 heavy weapons Teams, a Command Squad and 3 dead bodies!!! He was the last one, the other two were used on other of my models

I like the overall effect and the painjob is excellent. It kind of bugs me though that the shots are all on the wrong facing on the sentinel. It looks like the riptide has walked up to the sentinel and has turned around to face his allies rather than any remaining guardsmen.
Don't get me wrong, the whole model is superb and the way it is, the cinematics of the destroyed sentinel can be seen from the front. I just think that if the holes and melted plate were on the rear side of the base, the effect would be more of an advancing victor than a gloating one.