Bofur the Dwarf (Hobbit) Custom Action Figure
Custom #:91941
Name:Bofur the Dwarf
Custom Type:Action Figure
Toy Series:Hobbit
Creator:Deaditor  
Date Added:September 1, 2017
Height:5.00 inches
Critiques:Requested!
Don't deny it, deep in your heart you all love Bofur. He's the guy who terrifies you with tales of Dragons but plays a merry tune on his flute and wishes you well. Anyways, I really wanted to get this figure done and out, I used a basefigure that I saw so much potential in with the various parts (there are a lot!.
The pieces I used were:
-Mr Fantastic Head
-Frodo body
-Aragorn King lower body and upper legs
-Sheriff of Nottigham leg,knee and shin's
-Spiderman 2 Spiderman upper arm swivel joint
-Sheriff of Nottingham Lower arms
-Legolas Hobbit figure hands
-Wrist joints made out of Han Solo boots
-Aragorn Ranger Ancles and feet
-Gimli Coronation lower feet
-pieces of fodder etc and broken pieces repurposed.

The list could go on. I saw potential with the right wrinkels and eyes but resculpted the mouth and enlarged the nose. I used Elrond's robe tie for the curly parts of the moustache, Gimli's plat cut in half for the plats and part of Gimli's front beard for the back of his head. I used images of all the Dwarves in the fat suits to get the height and fatness right. James Nesbit being 6ft he needs to be shorter than Richard (Thorin) and Grahham (Dwalin) but taller than others. So I started sculpting the fat onto his body then covered with the tunic from the sheriff, then overlayed with Aragorns Tunic cut verticly to make thinner and fit him better. The used the sheriff's coat for the lower Tunic, a long strap and a piece from Strider's belt for the leather of the belt then sculpted a buckle, the cufflings, the fur on the boots, whittled the shoe's down to make hte mocasins then added the details. Those cuff's he has have a tetris snake all the way around with little triangles between so yes that took ages, but you know I love my details! His flute is just an Aragorn Arrow whittled and indented and painted. The Hammer of course is from a Gimli that I sculpted onto with miliput and used plastic for the back part. It took a while ith the right shapes and sanding to get the right slopes. The hat I made from two parts of the animal fur off the sheriff for the sides and front fur so it would e floppy not brittle, then with clingfilm over his head I sculpted the hat and details. The details in the ties are literally just thread tied for detail and glued. The scarf of course is the 3.75" Gandalf's one reshaped and repurposed! The wool fingerless gloves are the same method as Bombur's just placed the clay around his hands then imprinted with a loose piece of chainmail. Not sure what else to say other that look at the before and after haha.

Really pleased with this figure and how it turned out much better than I anticipated lol so yeah. Here he is Bofur the Dwarf.

Pictures
Hammer Time
Ever Growing
Brotherly love
'Bombur' *throws sausage, Bombur catched and the added weight makes the table collapse* xD
Promised ya I had plans about this scene haha!
Base figure and Details
Also a little embrace with Bilbo as I love their friendship truly touching!
User Comments
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Staley -
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Oh WOW !? Realy, really cool pictures ! It‘s so awesome, to see all your dwarfs together ! Your dwalin is my absolute favorite. By far. It‘s perfect ! Balin is also superb and now...your Bofur... CONGRATS ! I love the face a lot. Great to see the base-figure and what you‘ve turned it into. Great work !
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Deaditor -
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
I see you're going through my customs. My Balin's detail is great but his movement is ok, I'm updating him at the moment as his legs now move and I'm currently trying to get the rest of them done with two near completion.
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Bastila -
Saturday, September 2, 2017
This is my favorite figure you have done! The face sculpt is so friendly. The entire build has so much character!!
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Deaditor -
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Thanks, yeah if you look at the base figure it's kinda neatural negative serious face so I sliced off the lips and resculpted them with a smile based off a picture of him, from different angles it gets a different look
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Deaditor -
Saturday, September 9, 2017
I had a look at the version they wre going to release and all of them just had such miserable faces. Like I understand certain characters being stoic or grumpy looking, but Bombur?!?! He should be passive not super happy or sad or angry and Bofur?!? he needs his smile! Half of the face sculpts don't even resemble the actors. That's why I really liked your Dori, whilst he's B team I could see his face and the work you did and he definately looked like Mark Hadlow. The official one they were going to release looked like a tanned Sean Connery haha. It's why Eye colour and skin tonne are so important when making a representation of our favourite characters. All the Gimli figure's ever made had blue eyes.... but John Rhys Davis has brown eyes, its not like they made him wear contacts like Orlando Bloom or Lee Pace.
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Grinmankey -
Friday, September 1, 2017
LOVE IT!! Bofur was obviously a favorite and you totally dud him justice! I'm digging all the great details. Mine is sitting about 90% done, but I can't keep up with you and Bastila. Great stuff!!
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Deaditor -
Saturday, September 2, 2017
I'm very sure she will finish way before me haha, I just accidentily made Bombur then decided to make Bofur and have other projects from the Hobbit comming before any other Dwarves though a few here and there might be posted lol
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Edgy 3 -
Friday, September 1, 2017
so cool!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!! As All Ways!!!! GREAT WORK!!! The Hobbit was fully neglected as far as a figure line!!!!!! But NO More , in you they found the attention and the love they deserve!!!!! Nothing sadder to be a actor in a action advernture movie and not get a official figure to immortalize the moment in history ( even if only pop culture history!!!!)
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Deaditor -
Friday, September 1, 2017
Totally agree I have something in the works that if they actors saw they'd love, but yeah its awesome to be immortalised but shame they didn't get to.
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Red Wolf Kustoms -
Friday, September 1, 2017
Awesome Bofur! He's got that crazy moustache! The Bofur and Bombur scene made me laugh, Love that scene!
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Deaditor -
Friday, September 1, 2017
haha yeah well I knew I wanted to do it but needed Bofur finished also
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