MCP – Sentinel Mk4 & Sentinel Prime Painting Guide

Welcome to my latest painting guide! The Sentinels are here! I’ve been dreaming of these since MCP was announced and they really live up to my expectations!


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Prep: Fully build the models. Undercoat black.

Main Body Colours

Stage 1

Kantor Blue: Apply a basecoat to the blue sections.

Phoenician Purple: Apply a basecoat to the head, thighs and upper arms.

Leadbelcher: Apply a basecoat to the joints.

Stage 2

Thunderhawk Blue: Apply a thinned layer to the blue sections.

Screamer Pink: Apply a thinned layer to the head, thighs and upper arms.

Nuln Oil: Apply a shade to the metals.

Stage 3

Russ Grey: Apply a line highlight to the blue sections.

Kakophoni Purple: Apply a line highlight to the head, thighs and upper arms.

Drakenhof Nightshade: Apply a shade to the metals.

Stage 4

Fenrisian Grey: Apply a spot highlight to the blue sections.

Dechala Lilac: Apply a spot highlight to the head, thighs and upper arms.

Face & Lights

Stage 1

Kislev Flesh: Apply a basecoat to the face.

Fire Dragon Bright: Apply a basecoat to the chest and palm lights.

Khorne Red: Apply a basecoat to the eyes.

Stage 2

Flayed One Flesh: Apply a layer to the face.

Mephiston Red: Apply a layer to the eyes.

Yriel Yellow: Apply a layer to the middle of the lights.

Stage 3

Pallid Wych Flesh: Apply a line highlight to the face.

Evil Sunz Scarlet: Apply a layer to the eyes.

Dorn Yellow: Apply a thinned layer to the centre of the lights.

Stage 4

White Scar: Apply a spot highlight to the face and lights.

Wild Rider Red: Apply a spot highlight to the eyes.

Bases

Stage 1

Dawnstone: Apply a basecoat.

Stage 2

Mournfang Brown: Make a mix with around 5 parts water and apply a glaze over the rubble patches.

Stage 3

Celestra Grey: Apply a drybrush.

Stage 4

Ulthuan Grey: Apply a line highlight to the rubble and concrete.

Doombull Brown: Apply a basecoat to the bricks.

Warplock Bronze: Apply a basecoat to the car body and hubcap.

Incubi Darkness: Apply a basecoat to the tyre.

Stage 5

Agrax Earthshade: Apply a shade to the bricks.

Leadbelcher: Apply a layer to the car body and hubcap.

Thunderhawk Blue: Apply a layer to the tyre.

Stage 6

Wazdakka Red: Apply a thinned layer to the bricks.

Agrax Earthshade: Apply a shade to the metals.

Russ Grey: Apply a line highlight to the tyre.

Stage 7

Karak Stone: Apply a line highlight to the bricks.

Fenrisian Grey: Apply a spot highlight to the tyres.

Wazdakka Red: Apply a thinned layer to the car body, missing areas around the edges and crumples.

Update – Getting Back in the Saddle

Hello everyone! It’s good to be back and posting an update…finally. I want to start by saying thank you to everyone for your views, comments and donations. They are a superb and welcome boost. So a thousand thank yous to everybody.

Why the gap?

My mental health has been suffering for a while and the pandemic made things much worse. Painting offers an almost meditative calm for me, so that has continued for the most part, but when I’m at my worst I struggle with communication and unfortunately that includes online too. I’m sorry if I have not replied to your messages or emails. That’s something I will catch up on in the next few days.

I’m working through my issues and I’m still a long way off but I’m going to start posting a couple of times a week again to hopefully jump start things again.

What have I been painting

I’d been feeling a fair amount of burnout with MCP and as a result ended up jumping in the deep end with Star Wars Legion instead. Over the last few months I’ve managed to paint up an Empire army and a wee Shadow Collective force(although that was for an article). I’m a Star Wars nerd so I think I had a lot of pent up energy ready for a project like this.

I’ve also still been working on articles for Tabletop Gaming magazine each month, with more on the way. This always gives me an opportunity to tackle a huge variety of different minis.

Your support has always kept MCP and my painting guides at the back of my mind but I wasn’t really feeling the want to paint what I had. It was the announcement of the Sentinels that brought my attention fully back.

This also means I’ll have a few new guides up in the next couple of days…

What’s Next?

Well aside from the guides mentioned above I have a few MCP figures ready and waiting to be painted. More specifically the following…

Juggernaut

Blade & Moon Knight

X-23 & Honey Badger

Spider-Man Vs. Doc. Ock

I’ve no plans on an order I’ll be doing these as yet, you’ll have to wait and see what takes my fancy.

I’d love to hear from all of you, what guides would you like to see next?