Terracotta or Granite? Another Sentinel Might Be Happening
We had one of those very relatable hobby moments this week: a single paint scheme decision immediately turned into “maybe we need another model”.
Michał started with a simple thought — he might buy a second Sentinel. The reason was perfectly understandable: one of them definitely deserves a granite-style paint scheme, but the terracotta version came out so nicely that it felt wrong to give up on it entirely.
And honestly, we get it. Sometimes a test scheme stops being a test scheme the moment it starts looking really good.
In this case, the terracotta look clearly made an impression. Wilini immediately called out how well it worked, while also suffering from a very familiar kind of hobby pain: the moment when a mixed-color unit starts triggering the collector brain. If one Sentinel is terracotta and another goes granite, does that create cool visual variety — or does it become the kind of mismatch that keeps you staring at the shelf and thinking about buying “just one more”?
That is, of course, how these things usually start.
There was also an immediate request for the most important kind of proof shot: put the terracotta ones next to each other and show the unit on its own. Because a scheme can look great on a single miniature, but the real test is always how it reads as a group. Some colors absolutely come alive when repeated across a force, and terracotta feels like one of those schemes that could look especially striking when several models stand side by side.
So right now we seem to be at that dangerous but exciting stage of the project:
- the terracotta scheme works,
- the granite scheme is still calling,
- and buying another Sentinel is starting to sound less like impulse and more like a completely sensible hobby decision.
We fully support this kind of logic.
If the second one does happen, we are very curious to see the side-by-side comparison. Terracotta and granite sound like two very different moods for the same chassis, and that kind of contrast is exactly the sort of thing we love seeing in ongoing army projects.
For now, this is a great reminder that painting plans rarely get simpler once a model starts coming together. They usually just become more ambitious.