Painting Guide: Bofur

Bofur is the next one of this group of dwarves.  He comes swinging his mattock, showing the plight of many of the dwarves of Erebor since their exile began.  Another character with lots of freehand detail work to be done.      

0.  Bofur started with a black under coat.
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 Bofur’s hair, hand guards, pouch, and weapon wrap with Leather Brown.

2a. Highlight with Monster Brown.

3.   Paint his hat, boots, trousers, with Leather Brown.

3a. Highlight the boots and trousers with Fur Brown.

3b. Add a second highlight of a Skeleton Bone and Lava Orange mix in a 3:2 ratio.

4.   Basecoat the overcoat, tunic, and boot fur in Monster Brown.

4a. Add a highlight of Desert Yellow.

4b. Wash with Strong Tone.

5.   Paint Bofur’s mattock shaft and belt in Oak Brown.

6.   Paint his scarf and hat fur in Uniform Grey.

6a. Highlight with Ash Grey.

6b. Wash with Dark Tone.

7.   Add details to the overcoat, tunic, and wrist guards with Oak Brown.

8.   Paint the buckles and mattock head 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 Demonic Yellow. 

Next week everyone’s favorite dwarven wreaking ball lands on Bilbo’s door stop, be sure to come on by!

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.