Introduction
With the dwarf miniature assembled and prepared, it was time to paint it up. I decided on a traditional metal armor, but spiced it up with red cloth, and the sigil of Lliira on the shield.
Prime
In black, as usual.
Basecoat
Gunmetal, brown, gore red.
Reddish brown for the wooden handle of the hammer.
Cloth areas
My traditional red/black feathering technique on the shirt and tabard. I originally wanted to paint some symbols too, but the area was too small. Follow the red cloth painting tip.
Leather areas
Edge highlight with leather brown.
Overall brown wash (Agrax Earthshade).
Metallic areas
Basecoat the bronze areas (circlet, belt buckle, ornaments).
Overall black wash on all metallic areas.
Edge highlight with the original gunmetal.
Smaller edge highlight with silver. I used feathering on the shield (inwards from the border) for a bit of color transition.
Edge highlight with bronze.
Face
Skintone basecoat.
Fleshtone wash (Reikland Fleshshade).
Add water to red until you achieve a wash like quality. Spread over the cheeks to simulate ruddy skin (exertion? wine? probably both).
Beard
At 317 years, the old dwarf gets a light grey beard.
Highlight the top in white (also do the eyeballs at this point), then feather out downwards.
Black wash the bottom, and feather out upwards. (Again, do the eyeballs at this point).
Symbol on shield
Start with white primer to lay out the pattern.
I don't trust orange and yellow to cover perfectly, so lay an ochre basecoat.
Then apply the actual colors for the stars. Mix in some white and highlight the upper portions of the stars.
For the blue, I started with a darker tone.
Then mixed in white for the highlight. (Also corrected the lines with silver.)
Paint the iris of the eyes blue at this point.
Base
Dwarves traditionally live underground, in mines. So I went for a coal mine-esque look on the base.
First paint black all the areas where other paints have dropped on the base.
Then apply 3 successive drybrushes, with lighter and lighter grey:
Finished!
