Welcome to Tell Talk Ready, my name is Michael and I'm going to show you in this video how to paint your custodies as shadow keepers. I'm going to show you step by step how to go about painting all the different details of the custod, including the armour, cloth and staff. I also want to go into some detail about highlighting and the different stages of highlighting you could do to really make your miniatures stand out. I've already made tutorials showing you how to paint the classic gold armour custodies and solar watch and even have some amazing nuggets of information in them that you could use no matter what scheme you decide to paint your custodies. If you enjoy my content why not give me a like and let me know in the comments below. It shows you YouTube you enjoy my content and it really helps my videos get out to more people and grow the channel. I'm sure to reply to as many comments as I can. For the purpose of this tutorial I've left some parts set for it to make it easier to show you how to paint, but if you choose to fully assemble yours is absolutely fine. So you now have to shadow keepers armour is black, I recommend using a bad and black spray to un-cote custodies. This just makes things easier and quicker as the main colour is already painted. You may be tempted to go straight to painting the armour first as it's going to be the main focus of the miniature, but it's always important to think about the order you want to paint things. For our shadow keeper I want us to begin by painting all the gold and silver details first before tackling paint in the armour. So let's start by painting all the details we want to be gold first of all using Retributor armour. Take your time doing this and I always recommend thinning your paints with an equal amount of water which is going to help when painting. And although you don't have to worry so much about being neat, it does help as you won't have to do so much cleaning up later and it goes a long way to improving your hand eye coordination. Once you finish painting the gold let's give these details a wash using some right-climbed flesh shade. You want to use enough of the shade to cover these areas comfortably and we're doing this to give the gold definition which is going to help bring out all that decorative detail. Now the shade is dry as you can see the details better but the right-climbed flesh shade is still down the gold and isn't looking as vibrant as we want it to be. So let's use some Retributor armour again but this time to paint the more raised detail making sure not to ruin the definition we've already created, happy to bring the vibrance back. Before we move on to highlighting the gold let's get the silver details painted now. Start by painting any details you want to be silver with some iron hand steel. Think of these areas of wash using all oil. We can now highlight both the silver and gold details together using some stormhouse silver. With the gold and silver details done let's go ahead and work on getting the armour of our shadow keeper painted. I really want to go into some detail about highlighting in this part of the tutorial because if you can highlight well then you can paint anything in my opinion. But let's get the armour ready first of all by painting it with a bad and black. This not only cleans up any mistakes from painting the metals but you'll notice the bad and black from the pot is different to the spray undercoat. So also make sure we have a consistent base colour for our armour. Once you're happy with your base colour let me go through painting multiple stages of highlights. Before you even start it's worth having a good quality brush which you can get a nice point with. I would even keep a brush separate just for highlighting. You then want to think about the consistency of your paint and how much you have on your brush. It does take time to get used to. I do find I don't think down my paint as much as I normally would so I can get a nice drunker out without multiple passes like with wood with layering. I also like to remove some of the paint on some kitchen paper from the brush. This helps give me more control and prevents those thick blobby lines when painting. The first highlight that I'm going to show you is a chunky highlight and I'm using dark greaper for this. The first highlight wants to be quite a thick line and this is going to help soften and bring out the next highlight we do. It's also going to help with defining the shape of the armour. Go around the armour and I'm almost using the side of my brush for this highlight to get the thickness I'm after. If you're making any mistakes it's not a massive problem you can just use some a baddened black to meet up those lines. I'm now going to show you how to do a fine highlight. I'm using thinned hot blue and this highlight is going to bring out all those sharp edges making them easier to see. For a lot of these finer highlights you can use the edge of your brush and run it along those edges to create the highlights making it easier. For the areas you can't do this just take your time and paint a thin line along those edges to create the highlight. This is probably the trickiest and most time consuming part of highlighting. It just takes some practice and the more you do the better you'll get at it. I'm going to finish off the highlights with a spot highlight and I'm using fundraising grey for this. Using the same techniques I've already talked about pick out some of the more prominent edges and corners of the armour. I like to think about which points on the armour with the light catch making them stand out more. Highlighting is very prominent and powerful technique when painting miniatures and it just takes a lot of time and practice before you get really good at it. But it will never fail to make your miniatures look more amazing and impress everyone who looks at them. Now you're a master highlighter there's going to be no problem getting everything else painted on like a stowed. I now want to show you how to get the details painted like the cloth, gloves and panels on the shoulders. For the cloth let's start by painting an art base colour using a fistam red. And whenever you're painting it's always a good idea to think you paint first and I find an equal amount of water just to trick. Keep your brush moving and try not to go over any areas you've already painted to prevent any texture whilst the paint is drying. It's also better to paint using multiple thin layers so you don't lose any detail. So make sure your previous layer is fully dry before repeating the process until you have that solid base colour thereafter. When you're happy you have a good solid base colour it's time to shade and highlight the cloth. To shade the cloth start with painting some corn red into all the folds. You then want to use some nor oil in the deeper recesses but try not to overload your brush with the shade for more control. To get the cloth highlighted which you should be able to do easily after all the work you did on the armour, start with a chunky highlight using an evil sun scarlet. Then you want to finish the cloth by painting a fine highlight with a troll slayer orange. We can now move on to painting the shoulder panels and gloves. For any panels on the shoulders let's make it nice and simple by painting them with corn red. Trying to be as neat as we can around that decorative detail. For the gloves start with some warm fang brown. Then shade the gloves using nor oil. Once the shade is dried highlight the gloves with scraped brown. With those details all finished I want to move on to painting the staff and power blade. The custodies weapon is just as detailed as their armour so I want to show you how to get it painted including the power blade. Just like the armour let's clean up any messy areas and get a nice base colour first of all with some a bad and black. With that done let's get it highlighted. Start with a chunky highlight using Eshing Grey. Now do a fine highlight using Dawnstone. For the hand grip ridges discuss straight to highlight in these with my fist and red. Using different colours to highlight the different areas of black can really help separate them from each other. For the power blade I want to keep it simple but continue with using highlights to make our custodie look amazing. Use some Cantor Blue first of all to paint in some chunky highlights. Now use Tempelgar Blue to pick out all the edges of the blade. Blue Hore can then be used as a fine highlight over the Tempelgar Blue which is going to help create a glow effect. If you want to draw something different how I've painted the power blade in this tutorial then go and check out my other custodies painting tutorials where I go through a couple of different ways you could paint it. Let's now move on to getting the last few details painted on our shadow keeper. There isn't much left to paint on our custodie so let's get straight into starting with painting the helmet. For the helmet plume let's start with some calm red. Then pick out the details with some of the fist and red. Finish the plume by highlighting the hairs which will draw a slayer orange. For the eyes start by painting a small dot of white sky on the centre of each lens. Then you can use a small amount of contrast a thematic blue over these to create a cool glow for the lenses. The last details I want to show you how to paint are going to be all the gems around our custodie. Paint all the gems with the bad and black to begin with. Next paint some Cantor Blue and the bottom right of each gem. Now using the highlight and skills once again paint the thin line around the edges and blue horror. And once you've done that paint a small dot of white sky in the top left to finish off the gems. Finally if you want to be fancy you can use some hard coat on the gems to give them that glossy finish. Our shadow keeper custodie is now finished and I hope I've been able to give you the knowledge and confidence you need to go away and paint some shadow keepers of your own. Remember to go and check out my other custodie painting guides if you need some more inspiration. Thank you for watching, I really hope you've enjoyed this tutorial and you've got some useful from it. Make sure to give this video a like and let me know what you think in the comments below. 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