it has been really fun participating in and watching everyone build and paint their armies in preparation to play in the arena of escalation one of my favorite parts has been digging in to see how each player is painting their own armies what techniques they utilize and paints they select and in today's video we're going to watch as Stefan one of our talented Studio painters paints an lar wraith Lord for his army to get things started Stefan primed his miniature with color primer spray matte black you could substitute our matte black Air primer here as well well then with war paint's air matte white thin to touch with some airbrush medium he will apply a zenial layer to assist in locating the Highlight points on the miniature by spraying that white in a top down fashion this will assists the natural transparency in the air paints and the airbrush method when he uses Molen lava from The Fanatic range as his base coat alternatively you can use molten Orange from the air range you can see that even though the mini is taking on the orange Hue some of the volumes created by that zenial base coat still remain Stefan then thins speed paint purple swarm with some retarder and airbrush medium and he sprayed this from the shadows in a fashion that our very good friend Sam lens of the army painter Factory team likes to call the anti- zenial method purple being a natural contrasting color to Orange will really help to push the contrast and vibrancy of the orange orange base tones go back to his orange to reestablish and reinforce the original base color now and next you'll want to use Lava Orange from either the war paints air or fanatic ranges to add an even brighter lighter highlight once again we're going to apply this in that zenithal fashion to expose some of the natural highlights on the Contours of the miniature don't overdo it here you want to keep your spraying pattern very tight and refined now follow that up with an even more refined airbrush highlight of inner light you can also use incursion orange if you're sticking with the air range a cool trick to tie in all of your previous work use a wash through the airbrush we're using orange tone here and we're applying this as a transparent glaze through the airbrush this will disperse the pigments uniformly when applied in a nice thin layer now there's lots of layers happening here and that is the beauty of army painting we all have our own steps and processes to make the most impact as we can on the tabletop Stefan is now reestablishing this Inner Light highlight once again on key focal point areas on The Wraith Lord we'll jump to using Obsidian Skin and we'll apply an airbrush base coat on the helmet and weapons we will follow that up with a simple airbrush highlight of Amber skin and we'll build up a gradient to Pure matte White from the war paints air range which we will use on the loin cloth and tab birds as well then with deep ocean blue let's base coat the back of the robes now you could always sub ocean depths from the air range here and the reason Stefan is using a lot of fanatic colors in place of War paint's air is to keep consistent with the other Miniatures that he's already painted in his army now the benefit of our range is that many matching colors exist across both of the ranges now Stephan's going to show off some of his scale modeling skills here he's taped off the robes and we spray molten lava to begin a pattern we'll follow that up by Inner Light and once again repeat the steps with orange tone now just watch how satisfying this [Music] is got to love it sanus now applied some Inner Light to his extra large War gamer wet palette We Begin Edge highlighting all of The Wraith armor take your time here be as neat as you can using the edge of your brush as often as you can to pull neat and tidy highlights on all of the hard edges of the miniature next Stephan's going to apply our satin varnish all over the miniature to protect his previous work using purple swarm once again he thin this a bit and we'll apply this almost like a pin wash or shadowed layer now for those at home you can achieve the same effect using War paints fanatic purple tone wash we'll move on to a speed paint layer of grim black on specific details around the miniature this will be followed up with a highlight of deep ocean blue and we'll follow that up with a bit of wolf gray for a simple almost nonmetallic metal effect now a question for the audience do lar have metal or is it all wraithbone it doesn't matter uh to me it's all blood and skulls for corn and my world eaters anyways so let's apply our first brush highlight of ancient stone to the back of the loin cloth here do a simple highlight of wolf gray on the other side then go on to Edge highlight the helmet and weapons with matte white take your time with these highlights the neater that you can be the cleaner and more elfish the effect will end up being when you're done I guess according to Stephan Eldar do utilize metal so we'll paint this decorative plume for our dead elf Lord with some dark Emerald a new metallic from the war paints fanatic range we'll also use this to apply a base coat to the ghost ax and we'll use purple swarm once again as a unifying Shadow color for all of the dark Emerald which is unique unque but really cool combination just wait until you see how it all looks when it's finished now using my personal favorite new metallic true brass Stefan is going to apply highlights to all of the dark Emerald metallics once he's finished he'll thin down Obsidian Skin with our war paint stabilizer and begin Shadow glazing the axe blade to really give it that wraith bone appearance much like the helmet he will apply the first layer highlights with Amber skin thin again with the war paint stabilizer we'll use this color for the first Edge highlights as well then we'll refine those Edge highlights with some matte white now anytime you're creating gradients or Blends whether you're using an airbrush or bristle brush this tutorial helps to display that when you use repeated layers and over lapping layers it helps to make and create more seamless Blends and that's exactly what Stefan is doing here as he works back and fourth with those three colors to refine that final look of the blade now it looks like Stefan's going to highlight all of the remaining black areas with a bit of wolf gray a really nice desaturated light bluish gray we'll grab a new color for this tutorial and I like the choice here diabolic Plum it has some of those magenta tones that really root itself to that unifying purple Shadow color and we're just going to use this to begin layering our gemstones applying this over 3/4 to half of the gems you just follow that up with a simple highlight inside of that color using divver light just paint it inside of your diabolic Plum now does everybody save their gemstones for last probably so but we're not done just yet Stefan has to finish his base he'll start with a zenial of white before for an airbrushed layer of Obsidian Skin then using zombie flesh from the war paint's air range we'll apply this in a zenithal fashion we'll apply a white dry brush all over those previous layers using our masterclass medium dry brush then ochre clay speed paint is employed through the airbrush as a tint to the entire base and once that's dry Stefan will apply a dry brush this time using ancient stone with those Dome shaped goat hair masterclass dry brushes to Simply and realistically establish some highlights over the base I'll base coat the rim black before using speed paint Gilly doww over some ferns now before adhering those ferns to the base stepan elected to stipple some charming chartreuse to create an overgrown and mossy effect on the base and I think this is a really class move here then then after reassembling his wraith Lord and the ferns on the bases we'll apply some gloss varnish to all of the gems and call it a day follow along with all of our 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