More Dwarves and a Not-Galadriel

It's taken a while, mostly due to lack of mojo, but I have finally finished my first full unit for 2023, a second shield wall of Dwarf warriors from Conqueror Models. 

The dwarves are all in a more aggressive stance with this unit.

For this unit's banner I went with a green field and a white mountain goat. I think anvils and crossed axes are just a rather tired cliché now. 

For the decoration at the hems, I've found that there is less room between the edge of the mail and the hem of the tunic from the older Vendel sculpts, so it was more frustrating to try and do a simple design with these figures. I did manage to make the captain's tunic more elaborate though.

I've also incorporated more runes onto the shields to make them look more Dwarfy. Maybe they have talismanic significance, maybe it's just their way of marking their shield. The runes are just made up. I thought about being cute and using JRRT's runes to have them spell something rude if I lined them up the correct way, but that'd get old fast.

The big N with the axe/hammer through it is actually inspired by the badge for 'Nemesis', the bad guy in the rather bad superhero movie Samaritan starring Sylvester Stallone. 

I also put some paint on this medieval female character from Pulp Figures' new 1066 range. In history she was Isobel de Conches, daughter of Simon de Montfort, who lead her husband's knights in battle. It is a nice pack with Isobel mounted and armed, on foot armed, and on foot in court dress. I've painted the courtly dressed figure all in white as a not-Galadriel to help my Elves with some extra magic and leadership. I also wanted to practice my white.

The backdrops are free downloads from Jon Hodgson that I printed out and glued to some foam core.