Painting Guide: Gloin

Two thirds of the way through Thorin’s company and Gloin comes to visit the uncle of his son’s future companion.  He was the last dwarf I painted and has a much more complex paint scheme than most of the others.     

0.  Gloin 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 Gloin’s hair in Fur Brown.

2a. Highlight with a 1:1 mix of Lava Orange and Demonic Yellow.

2b. Wash with Strong Tone.

3.   Paint Gloin’s axe shafts, pouches, tunic armor, and forearm guards in Oak Brown (this is to help overcome the black base color).

4.   Paint the armor panels, tunic arms, armor trim, and axe shafts with a 2:3:2 mix of Oak Brown, Chaotic Red, and Leather Brown.

5.   Paint Gloin’s tunic with a thin coat of Dragon Red.

5a. Detail work (Cross hatch on the tunic) is done in with Matt Black.

6.   Paint the belt, pouches, and wrist guards in Leather Brown.

6a. Highlight the same with Monster Brown.

7.   Paint Gloin’s trousers with Green Skin.

7a. Wash the trousers with Green Tone.

7b. Highlight the folds of the trousers with Army Green.

8.   The boots remain the black base color and are highlighted in Uniform Grey.

9.   Paint the axe heads, beard beads, and buckles in Gun Metal.

10. Paint the axe pommels in Greedy Gold.

11. Paint the armor in Weapon Bronze.

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 Matt White. 

The last group of Dwarves arrives for the meeting next week and Bifur with his goblin axe head are the first to land on Bilbo’s threshold!

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.