From SidneyR: Two Curtgeld Dwarves (30 points)

Adventuring in the chambers of Challenge Mountain is never easy.  No sooner than you're past the Hall of Traps, you need to negotiate the perils of The Pit of the Pendulum, avoid the temptations of the Larder, and move quietly through the Hatchery...  To say nothing of the perils which lurk in the lower levels of Challenge Mountain.  

What you need, fellow Challengers, is the company and assistance of a pair of Dwarvish brothers for the journey ...

Alongside more of my ludicrous seventeenth century painting, I finished up a couple of these Midlam Miniatures dwarves last week.  They are now destined to travel, with the blessings of our Snow Lord, to a couple of Challengers who kindly brought me a present of some books to a wargames show back in 2019 and who (even more generously) helped me with my ham-fisted "minion-ing" attempts a few years back in Challenge VIII.

Hopefully the Dwarvish brothers will help them both through the perils of this, and many future, dungeons.

I'm enjoying this Challenge, not least because it is forcing me to step outside of my comfort zone and paint a few miniatures I'd never dreamed of actually painting.  Both of these dwarves have been in the painting pile for some time, but I never quite had the motivation to paint them until now.

Like the Midlam Miniatures I've painted in other Challenges, these are fine sculpts, with hardly any flash or mould-lines.  They take primer, undercoating and paint really well.  They're also, in a word, "unfussy" - the figures are perfect for dungeon-crawling, but would also not look out of place in a battlefield.

I kept the bases very simple as their new owners will no doubt have their own ideas of what vegetation might grow in their particular dungeon.

As to the points - 5 points for each of the dwarves - they may be a little on the smaller size for 28mm miniatures, but try telling a dwarf they don't merit 5 points a-piece, dear Challengers!  And add in 20 for the Curtgeld, and that's a total of 30 points.