Painting Guide: Ori

Sorry for the delay, we lost internet for a couple of days and other priorities came up.  Ori plays to the theme of the dwarves of Erebor having resorted to scratching out a living any way they could since their exile and wandering.  Ori has made his living as a toy maker and his sling shot as a choice of weapon reflects this.  Once again this is a highly accurate sculpt and I feel this is one of my better paint jobs, it is also one of the simplest.      

0.  Ori 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 Ori’s boots & straps, coat, gloves, hair & beard, and sling shot in Oak Brown.

3.   Highlight the knife scabbard and fine lines on the hair with Fur Brown.

4.   Highlight the coat, gloves, and leg straps with Leather Brown.

5.   Paint the trim on the coat with Monster Brown.

5a. Paint the cross hatch on the trim with Skeleton Bone.

5b. Wash the coat and boots with Red Tone.

6.   Paint the satchel with a 3:1 ratio off Army Green and Oak Brown.

6a. Highlight the satchel with Necrotic Flesh.

6b. Paint the bone sticks on the satchel flap with Skeleton Bone.

7.   Highlight Ori’s pants and belts with Uniform Grey.

8.   Paint the buckles and sheath with Gun Metal.

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.

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 Ash Grey. 

EHH, WHAT’S THAT YOU HEAR? Must be old man Oin showing up next!  And be sure to pop in Sunday night for the Weekly Workbench!

I must 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 in March, so once this starter set is done you will begin to see the new colors!