we here at the Army painter are passionate about what we do the minis we paint and the games we play the arena of escalation is a great example of that if you're just tuning in we here at the Army painter offices have been participating in a slow grow Warhammer 40K project all year long we've all selected an army and we're checking in with hobby progress and updates on social media and at our blog today our lead Studio painter and product developer Thomas is going to show you how he painted his Imperial police great night um I chose it mainly because as all of a sudden I was able to with the new imperial agents codex uh gave me the option to bring gr into my Army and it gave me the opportunity to actually build some some crossover between the new Terminator kit and the old Greenlight Terminator kit so it was uh mainly because it's fun to build and yeah very cool uh cool looking models after priming his model with our war paints air primer matte black Thomas began with an application of warpaints air plate mail metal all over the miniature he's going to use speed paint Tyrion Navy through the airbrush as a shadow glaze essentially spraying this blackish blue aiming from the bottom up spraying under the model and into the recess to add Shadow our good friend Sam lens likes to call this an anti- zenithal he'll reinforce the original base tone with a focused application of that previous color afterwards he'll apply polished silver once again from the speed paint range through the airbrush for a subtle reflective highlight now Thomas will apply a thorough wash of dark blue tone all over the miniature a larger brush like the wargamer regiment brush will help to deliver the paint in a generous fashion work those darker pigments into the recesses to help Define the details on that miniature next Thomas is going to reinforce the Shadows by applying a glaze with war paint's fanatic deep ocean blue thinning this very deep greenish blue into the shadows will knock down some of the reflectivity of the metallic base coats while adding volume to the shaded areas if you're glazing at home for the first time work in thin layers and try thinning your paints with a bit of our fanatic stabilizer the stabilizer assists in evenly Distributing the pigments when you thin your paint paint once that glaze is dried Thomas will apply a traditional layered highlight of mithil we'll also use this very bright silver paint to apply Edge highlights while picking out the details next up Thomas is going to begin painting some panels with mold Berry this will be the base tone for the Reds on this gry Knight now most grey kns don't feature red but this one does so if you're following the more traditional scheme at home you can emit this from your process but I still recommend watching because Thomas is really really good at painting and it's just just a pleasure to watch next he's going to use a character brush and some Dragon red to begin his first layered highlights Thomas has thinned this a bit again with our stabilizer and he'll work up this red in several thin layers but even in its thin State just look at the coverage and saturation of that Dragon red if you struggle to paint red do yourself a favor and buy a bottle of dragon red better yet the entire cool Red's flexible Triad immediately now with raging row Thomas will begin defining the edges and details of the Reds character brush is perfectly suited for these types of details as it is just enough body to carry paint for a while without drying out too fast but it's still fine enough to paint small details they'll apply a highlight of opal skin this time it will be more focused spectral highlight on the most extreme corners and hardest edges now the new speed paint 2.0 formula is so versatile it's perfect as a one coat painting system and it's also fantastic for glazing thanks to its unique and Powerful pigmentation speed paints can be thinned and applied to add punch and even more saturation to colors like red yellow green and more applying a speed paint glaze also helps to smooth Transitions and harmonize your previous work not that Thomas needs it because his Blends are smooth as [ __ ] anyways you don't have to apply this too heavily just a light thin coat will do the trick here is a really cool hack if you've already painted your model in silver tones and want to add Golds Begin by simply applying a base coat of a ruddy or yellowish speed paint as Thomas is doing here with Ruddy fur this shifts the Hue and tonality of the silver and leaves a perfect canvas to begin layering up your Golds or bronzes to do that just grab your color of choice Thomas is using greedy gold here and then begin highlighting it from there finish that off with a refined highlight of War paint's itic true brass and you've just made painting gold super easy this hack saves loads of time and offers a real smooth and compelling final look with the gold down grab some Grim black speed paint and paint the Under Armour and internal housing then base coat your Purity seals with mold Berry next gray castle for the parchment can use this on the decorative skull as well apply a simple highlight of brain matter beige then apply a wash using sepia tone to the parchment soft tone for the skulls and strong skin shade for the candles and other details next highlight the parchment again using brain matter beige in a scratchy textured fashion continue to use this to highlight the skull before grabbing raging rows once again to highlight the SE seals finally use matte white from The Fanatic range to apply the most extreme highlights to the candles skull and parchment you can also use this color to block in the lenses of the grey Knights helmet and now it's time for everybody's favorite segment fun with Flur Essence to kick things off we'll use radiation glow one of the fluo effects from The Fanatic range just apply this to the burning areas of the candle once that stried highlight that with a bit of demonic yellow leaving some of the orange showing for a very simple flame effect let's grab another glow effect this time data system glow to help make those lenses pop alls it takes is one coat you can go ahead and Define this later with a highlight maybe one of the vibrant greens if you choose to do so Thomas has his Ry fur once again this time he's using it as a glaze to weather down the blade of the spear then he's going to show off some freehand work it's a common misconception by novice painters that using thicker paints AIDS freehand work that couldn't be further from the truth and as someone who freehand a lot of checkers I can say that without a doubt you want to use thin paints to create compelling freehand work Thomas's thin company gray with war paint stabilizer and retarder to help give him ultimate control when performing his freehand work you should too that stabilizer is put to use once again to thin m black for the script work on the parchment as well it's time to paint the base of the miniature and Thomas has once again employed the basing theme of the year starting with a base coat of warpaint's fanatic effects dark rust we recently published a Terrain video with Factory team member Eric of Eric's hobby Workshop where he built a table of terrain fit to match this Rusty bass theme that we'll be using in our final of the Arena of escalation coming at the end of this year click the link above and save that video for next back to the base once the dark rust has dried thin down one part fresh rust to two to three parts clean water and apply this as a heavy wash over the base the brighter orange pigments and the fine texture found inside these effect paints will work their way into the recesses for the easiest and most realistic rust effect that you can achieve with acrylic paints today to help tie the model into the theme of the base Thomas will thin down some of that dark rust and apply this as a wash into the recesses it also itile this with an old brush for a dry textured effect with that complete this Grey Knight is ready to battle alongside Thomas' Imperial police in the arena of escalation follow along with all of our Arena of escalation hobby progress or join in from home using hash Arena of escalation and to learn more about the amazing products used in this tutorial from our war paints fanatic range as well as our industry-leading speed paints War paints air color primers and our full range of high quality paints and accessories designed to make miniature painting simple fast and fun you can learn more at your friendly local game store preferred online retailer or at www.the Army painter.com