Painting Guide: Bombur

The last, but certainly not the least, of Thorin’s dwarves comes rolling in looking for a feast.  A fairly simple paint job but a very enjoyable miniature. 

0.  Bombur started with a Uniform Grey 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. Highlight using Barbarian Flesh.

2.   Paint Bombur’s shirt in Goblin Green.

2a. Highlight with Necrotic Flesh.

2b. Wash the shirt with Green Tone.

3.   Paint his boots with Oak Brown.

3a. Wash the boots with Dark Tone.

3b. Highlight the boots with Leather Brown.

4.   Paint Bombur’s vest in Leather Brown.

4a. Highlight with Monster Brown.

4b. Do a second highlight of Monster Brown and Desert Yellow in a 1:1 ratio.

4c. Wash in Strong Tone.

5.   Paint Bombur’s hair in Fur Brown.

5a. Highlight with a mix of Lava Orange, Skeleton Bone, and Pure Red in a 2:2:1 ratio.

5b. Wash the hair in Strong Tone.

6.   Paint the trousers and gloves in a Uniform Grey and Matt Black mix in a 10:1 ratio.

6a. Highlight with Ash Grey.

6b. Wash with Dark Tone.

7.   Paint the satchel in a 1:1 ratio of Desert Yellow and Monster Brown.

7a. Wash in Strong Tone.

8.   Paint the butcher knife and ladle handles in Oak Brown.

8a. Paint the metal of the butcher knife and ladle in 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 Necrotic Flesh. 

Next week we come to the end of the company and the King Under the Mountain makes his appearance!

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.