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Pilot-Corporal. George 'Grass' Tunner is the pilot of the Armored Sentinel 'Clapper' in the 37th Combined Regiment (named the 'Combined Regiment' due to the multiple troops from homeworlds such as Cadia, Catachan, Hubris, and MANY other worlds) their custom colours have become a bastion for their affiliated soldiers throughout the empire.



The White and Red stripes signify that the vehicle has lived through its first battle and is a fully fledged member of the 37th. The 37th markings on its front also note its unit, custom painted by Corporal Tunner.



The markings have been painted on by Corporal Tunner quite recently, when he decided to 'keep score' even though he has gotten many, MANY other kills and destroyed vehicles.



Corporal Tunner piloting his vehicle, with his own pilots cap he 'borrowed' from Pilot-Sergeant Kerry Mackson, Pilot of Marauder bomber 'Singing Bell'



The 109th Catachan 'Smokers' posing with Corporal Tunner in his Sentinel.



Side shot of 'Clapper' and the pilots backup gear which comes with

A M36 Paratrooper Lascarbine

Two Emergency signal grenades

A bedroll

Two days worth of rations

One spare lascarbine Cell

(This is my first painted Sentinel which fits with my huge fluffy army, it came with the MANY catachans I bought. So.. I decided to make him a story, although he hasn't been in the field yet)

looks like a great build! I love the hell out of fluffy armies, combined arms units most of all. the model looks great, I only see one tiny little mold line on the bedroll.

of course, that front paint..... see, the problem with painting "slapdash" style is it just looks like bad paint. I figured you wanted it to look like the pilot did it, but it looks super thick, as if you didnt thin the paint at all.

Maybe next time you can weather or wash the whole vehicle, then paint cleanly over top that to make it look like a new paintjob?

lastly, those catachans look pretty great. can we get some closeups of those?

 Priest Foxley wrote:
looks like a great build! I love the hell out of fluffy armies, combined arms units most of all. the model looks great, I only see one tiny little mold line on the bedroll.

of course, that front paint..... see, the problem with painting "slapdash" style is it just looks like bad paint. I figured you wanted it to look like the pilot did it, but it looks super thick, as if you didnt thin the paint at all.

Maybe next time you can weather or wash the whole vehicle, then paint cleanly over top that to make it look like a new paintjob?

lastly, those catachans look pretty great. can we get some closeups of those?

Thanks! I put a lot work into my fluff, but the model was bought from a friend (along with a bunch of catachans, seen in the picture) but the Sentinel was painted by myself, before it was a matt grey primed color.

At the time of painting the stripes I had lost my pallette pad (it was ontop of my computer tower) and me with no pallette on hand, I didn't thin them down. Its a common problem with all of my command stripes and is something I am trying to remember.

Heres some closeups of the catachans though, I still have about 70 or so infantry models that need paint. (these were painted at the time of buying, I keep them on my desk though because they look very nice.)





Also, for the white bars I did just use Ceramite white. I might want to get a new white for the bar colors before I work on my next sentinel.

EDIT: To be more specific, I suck at remembering to thin down paints and my brushes are not well maintained as they are 2.99 brushes from my local hobby store.