Dwarves of Mount Dolmed - a dwarf army for Middle Earth

[James Morris]

Dwarves of Mount Dolmed

‘A warlike race of old were the Naugrim, and they would fight fiercely against whomsoever aggrieved them: servants of Melkor, or Eldar, or Avari, or wild beasts, or not seldom their own kin.’
The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien

Depending on how you look at it, this has either been a very long or very short project. The inspiration for this was jointly the dwarves of Tolkien’s Middle Earth and the wonderful Saxon/Viking-inspired dwarf miniatures sculpted by Colin
Patten.  I bought about 30 of the original Vendel Miniatures dwarves around 2002 intending to run a Moria campaign, only to paint half and resign them to strtorage.  However, in 2020 I started to take note of the smashing Conqueror Models range of dwarves (also sculpted by Colin Patten) and bought some packs to add to the warband.  Over the last few months I’ve been able to get them all done; checking out my copy of the Silmarillion, I decided to theme them as the dwarves of Mount Dolmed from the First Age of Middle Earth (although Tolkien does not mention any of their names, so all the captions below are my own.)

Figures are mostly Vendel (now available from Thistle and Rose in the USA) and Conqueror Models. There are a handful of other manufacturers in there which I hope you will have fun spotting - I raided the bits box for any dwarflike models to make up the numbers! I used LBM Oathmark shield transfers and banners from Northstar (as well as the fab Oathmark metal dwarf characters) to speed things up.

The mountain photo background is a printable download from Jon Hodgson.

[scatterbrains]

 

Wonderful looking dwarf army!

[Plynkes]

Those are beautifully done, James. Bravo!

[Brandlin]

ooooohhh pretty!

That is what dwarfs should be sir... thank you for sharing

[Mr.J]

Beautifully painted. Well done!

[Grumpy Gnome]

Gorgeous work!

[Chimpfoot]

Fabulous

[Hitman]

Fantastic work!! Now they need some goblins to beat upon. They will look great on any gaming table. Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
 

[Dolmot]

You called?

Oh.

Well, I'm glad I visited this thread. Very nice throng.

[Bearwoodman]

Grim, fierce and proud. Very impressive!

[Blackwolf]

Brilliant 

[gamer Mac]

Great stuff

[Melnibonean]

Lovely work. They really have a great atmosphere about them.

[Ragnar]

Pure eye candy James!

[Lord_of_Moria]

Wonderfully done!