Painting Guide: Dori

Front

Sorry for the delay, I misplaced my paint journal and had not typed this tutorial yet.  Dori begins the first of the less well known dwarves of Thorin’s Company.  Peter Jackson chose to help distinguish many of these dwarves by adding a little special detail to each.  For a number of them it is a less common principle weapon.  This is the case for Dori, who comes armed with a three headed flail, a flail being a short weapon with a round metal head attached to the handle by a chain or rope.      

Left Side

0.   Dori starts out with a Matt Black undercoat.

1.   Paint the flesh using Tanned Flesh.

1a. Wash the skin with Red Tone to get the ruddier tone of the Dwarfs.

1b. Wash the skin again in Flesh Tone.

1c. Highlight using Barbarian Flesh.

2.   Paint Dori’s hair and beard with Ash Grey.

2a. Highlight with Matt White.

2b. Wash the hair and beard with Soft Tone.

3.   Paint Dori’s Tunic and Mantle with Chaotic Red.

3a. Highlight with a 1:1 ratio mixture of Barbarian Flesh and Pure Red.

3b. Add a second highlight by adding 1:1 ratio mixture of the above and Matt White.

3c. Finally wash the Tunic and Mantle with Red Tone.

4.   Paint Dori’s overcoat and top of the wrist guards in Chaotic Red.

4a. Highlight the edges of the overcoat with Pure Red.

4b. Wash the overcoat with Dark Tone.

Paint Directions 1

5.   Paint Dori’s boots with Monster Brown.

5a. Wash the boots with Dark Tone.

6.   Highlight the belt, wrist-guards, and scabbard with Uniform Grey.

7.   Paint the sword blade, flail chains, belt buckle, and scabbard edges with Plate Mail Metal.

7a. Wash the above with Dark Tone.

8.   Paint the sword pommel and flail heads with Weapon Bronze.

8a. Wash these parts with Dark Tone.

Paint Directions 2

Some last notes:  

A. The eyes were painted between the Flesh Tone Wash and the Barbarian Flesh Highlight.  The eyes are done with a 5/0 brush.  First paint a horizontal white line and then place a black dot in the center.

B. AP Soft Tone is a good wash for flesh and other light colored items.

C. AP Strong Tone is a good general brown wash similar to Citadel's Agrax Earth Shade. 

D. AP Dark Tone is a good black wash similar to Citadel's Nuln Oil.

Rear

I based the miniature with coral beach sand for the rocky/sandy caves of Goblin Town and added some Highland Tufts and Meadow Tufts from The Army Painter Battlefields range.  I then painted the edge of the base in Alien Purple. 

Right Side

Next week Nori comes in swinging with his two handed mace!  And be sure to pop in Sunday night for the Weekly Workbench!

I have to thank TALE OF TWO PAINTERS for the inspiration for these tutorials.  Unfortunately, I do not have step by step photos like they do as I found their site after I was a quarter of the way complete.  They painted the miniatures using Citadel paints.  I felt a guide using The Army Painter brand was warranted, especially as there is no readily available conversion chart for Citadel and AP brands like the other major miniature paint brands (Vallejo, P3, Reaper, etc.).  When I painted these miniatures I only had the 42 bottle 2015 Mega Paint Set II, so there was a lot of mixing of paints to get the right color. My wonderful mother graced me with the Veteran Warpainter Upgrade Set with an additional 82 paints for my birthday this past weekend so once this starter set is done you will begin to see the new colors!