Model Mondays: Sentinel

This edition of Model Mondays showcases the Imperial Guard Sentinel, another vehicle from the Warhammer 40,000 table top miniatures wargame.  Warhammer kits, for the most part, are fairly easy to put together--there usually aren't problems with pieces not fitting together, etc.  It's a topic I really enjoy building.  The designs of their vehicles are...unique.  Plus, it's futuristic military sci-fi, and what's not to love about that?

The Sentinel is a scout/reconnaissance vehicle used by the Imperial Guard, which is the standing army of the Imperium of Man.  It is a two-legged walking vehicle, with one person inside.  The Sentinel can be outfitted with a number of different weapon systems, to include autocannons (which is what mine is armed with), rocket/missile launchers, flamethrowers, and plasma guns.  The Sentinel is also used as a heavy-lift vehicle, and can be outfitted with pincer arms instead of weapons in order to move crates, munitions, etc.

I wanted to go with a slightly different color scheme, but still wanted it to be camouflaged.  One of the nice things about building science fiction models is that, since the actual vehicle doesn't exist, you can use your imagination when building and painting.  The kit went together with very little problem, although it did take me awhile to figure out how I was going to pose the legs.  Each leg has two joints, and the foot is on a rotating ball, so I had lots of options for positioning the legs, which was dependent on how I was going to mount it.  The terrain piece that it sits on is pre-made--not my work, I found it in my local gaming store, already painted.  It's made of recycled rubber.  I attached the model to the terrain piece using just a bit of superglue on the forward foot.

 

The whole thing is about 5 inches tall, from the base of the rocks to the top of the Sentinel's antennae.

Comments are always welcome; enjoy the pictures!