Painting Guide: Oin

As promised we are back with the Army Painter tutorials for Thorin’s Company from Games Workshop Strategy Battle Game's Escape from Goblin Town set.  Old, deaf Oin is next with his hearing horn and battlestaff.  He was the third dwarf I painted and has a fairly simple paint scheme as well, though some detail work is needed.     

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 the battle staff in Oak Brown.

2a. Hightlight with Leather Brown.

3.   Paint the trousers, strapping scarf & hood, and coat cuff & trim with Leather Brown.

3a. Do an initial highlight with Monster Brown.

3b. Add a second highlight of Monster Brown and Desert Yellow in a 2:1 ratio.

4.   Paint the coat in Chaotic Red.

4a. Wash with Dark Tone.

4b. There was some additional highlighting here but I have no idea what it was.

5.   Paint Oin’s gloves, fur, and beard with Uniform Grey.

5a. Highlight with Ash Grey.

5b. Highlight only the beard with White.

5c. Shade all with Dark Tone.

6.   Paint the boots with an Oak Brown/Black/Dragon Red mix in a 9:1:2 ratio (was completely messing around on the pallet there).

6a. Wash with Dark Tone.

7.   Paint Oin’s horn, chest armor, belt buckle, scabbard end, knife hilt & pommel, and staff tips with Plate Mail Metal.

7a. Wash with Dark Tone.

8.   Add the detail work to the scarf and hood trim with Black.

  

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 Monster Brown. 

Gimli’s dad rounds out this group of dwarfs next week!  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.