From Kerry T - "Bear with me" - Highlands Miniatures heavy dwarf cavalry - (120 points)

Morning, afternoon and evening all

I think I'm turning into a zoo keeper or something as I had camels in my first round and goblins riding wolves in the second. Well this time its bears

Highlands Miniatures Dwarf Heavy Cavalry

Fantasy purists will be having apoplexy I know, yes Dwarves are not meant to ever be mounted but the temptation to send dwarves into battle riding on the back of something is just too great in my view. C'mon, I'm short and anytime I can stand on something and so look down on somebody else is an opportunity that I'm not going to overlook

Yes far too tempting, even if they do run away!

I love the look of Highlands Miniatures and at their last Black Friday sale waded in and bought some STLs. The lighter cavalry riding rams are likely to be next

I just love these figures and had great fun painting them up but they did take a lot more time than I had anticipated. I decided on a blue and yellow colour scheme for no good reason.

I'll have you know that I consulted my many historical uniform books and could not find any reference as to how Dwarven cavalry should be attired. I wanted to give them a uniform look but with some variation and decided that with the exception of the musician they should wear identical coats. 

Now I'm not sure if they were around in Napoleonic days but if they were I'm sure they would have adopted the convention of displaying the drummer in reverse colours. I also assumed that each trooper caring for his horse err I mean bear might take a bit of artistic license and decide to give his mount an individual looking coat

 

I mean bears aren't exactly docile so being able to pick yours out by the colour of his coat by not getting too close to others seems a sensible idea and probably has an historical basis.

Similarly having a white bear for the officer is also likely historically authentic

Polar Bear leads the charge

Charging in echelon

Painting the cheque was my idea of fun, yeah right

So in summary

12 Mounted figures @ 10 points each = 120 points

1 bear err I mean squirrel

Many thanks

Best wishes 

Valleboy

From Millsy:

Dwarf heavy cavalry on armoured bears! What's not to like? These are absolutely smashing mate, in every sense of the word.

The blue and yellow is a perfect counterpoint for all the steel and grey/brown coats of the bears. And the beards are properly oversized to the point of being a real risk to your ability to fight. Love em!

120 smashing points!

Cheers,
Millsy