To start with, I have two full companies of shieldwarriors, with a third that is three models short (happy to take three spare shieldwarriors off of anyone, if they'd like :D ), which is twenty-one overall. Of these, I have eight completed by me, eight completed by somebody else, which I plan to strip (sorry!) and repaint in my own scheme and the last five have some green painted on, which I will either paint over or strip and start again.Just a quick close-up of a shieldwarrior. I have finally based some models, by which I mean, all of my completed WotR Dwarves have some snow on their base. The colour scheme here is Scorched
Brown for the boots and belt, Graveyard Earth for the base, trousers and sleeves, Ultramarines Blue for the tabard and shield, Boltgun Metal on the scalemail, axe, buckle and shield trim (and boss), Chestnut Ink on the scale armour, Dwarf Flesh on the skin and Burnished Gold on the helmet. Add a little Games Workshop basing snow to the base (usually, but not always, five splodges. One in front, on ebehind, one to each side and one in the middle somewhere.) and it's all done! Well, except for the beards ;)
Second are my Dwarf Archers.
The picture of the company wasn't great, so I decided to just give you a close up of a couple of them. I have eight and all of them are completed. Now, the sharp-eyed amongst you may see a thin strip of green on the right hand model (the one with the grey beard). I'll explain that with the next picture, but I want to explain the paint scheme here: They are painted as above, but the blue is replaced with Scab Red, the bow and arrows are Kommando Khaki and the fletching is Liche Purple. However, I want to switch the Scab Red for Catachan Green.Now you get to see what the slither of green was! Although you may have been able to see whilst reading the last part, anyhow :D
As you can see, I have attempted to sculpt a cloak onto the grey bearded archer. I have done this to four of the archers and plan to do it to the other four (hopefully a little more smoothly, although I may add a thin extra layer of greenstuff to this one to smooth it out), with my reasoning being: in WotR, for pure shooting value, the rangers are better. Add some cloaks, repaint the red in green and paint the scale mail as leather brigandine armour and they're instant rangers (much more useful to me). Also, I don't really fancy haveing rangers with great weapons from their actual boxed set, so it works out to be a win-win situation for me. Making the most of the warriors box, avoiding having models that I'd only want to trade, practicing my greenstuff work and having more unique looking rangers (that can still feasibly be used as archers!).
Enough blabbering about the archer/rangers :D We'll move onto my great weapon/two-handed weapon warriors.
Two companies (or sixteen models) of these guys, eight of which are in my scheme, seven painted by the person that painted the shieldwarriors and one that is done in a small amount of green. These guys are done exactly the same as the shieldwarriors, but I think it may look better if they are done in Scab Red (so, painted in the current archers' scheme), which also helps to separate the shieldwarriors and two-handed weapon warriors formations. It would also help to tie them into their elite counterparts (also in red), which is something that I think I shall carry over to the other units. So, for example, the shieldwarriors' elites would be the Vault Wardens (which I don't yet have any of) and the rangers' elites would be... Ballista? MAYBE Iron Guard (because I have them, lol :D )... Still, I think you get the idea and point of what I'm going on about ;)Just a quick close up of one of the two-handed weapon guys.
Got a little space to use up, so I may as well say that I randomly choose the colours of the beards, but tend to keep it between Fortress Grey, Beastial Brown, Scorched Brown, Chaos Black, Iyanden Darksun, Vermin Brown and a few others, sometimes using some inks (from the old range, so not washes, although they'd likely work better), from a selection of Black Ink, Chestnut Ink and occassionally Brown Ink too.Eight Iron Guard (or a single company), recently acquired in a trade-off for 16 Uruk-hai Scouts, which I shall miss, but never really had a use for :D
Anyhow, I haven't yet decided how I would like to paint them, but if I choose for them to be the "elites" of my rangers, then a green is likely to be best (maybe Camo Green? It's lighter, which matches the difference between the two-handed weapon warriors and the Khazad Guard and isn't as garish as Goblin Green... Thoughts, please?). Regardless, these were painted when I got them and need to be updated, both to fit into my army and because they are somewhat chipped of paint (and, unfortunately for me to have to say, are better done than my current painting skills. Eleven years of gaming and I'm still not confident in my ability to use highlighting yet :D ).
So, currently, the idea for the scheme will be to paint them as I have all of the warriors, but giv ethem Camo Green tabards, paint the helmets like I have with the Khazad Guard (which are coming up next), except maybe leave the chainmail without any ink... Will that make them look too bland?The next item on the list are my Khazad Guard. 
I have a single company of eight models and am planning to buy another box of Balin's Guard (or whatever it's called) to get another eight and a spare Balin model, which is much better value than buying them separately in blisters. Obviously, these guys need to be in more than one company, but their only defence is their defence, which is lower than my shieldwarriors, so I may need to screen them, but I definitely need more bodies, but I'm trying to decide how many are needed. Two companies are an absolute minimum, but for them to be effective three is necessary and for them to be effective after losses to shooting, I'm thinking four or five would better, but that gets ridiculously expensive. 
I think I would like four companies though, so any ideas here would be great :D Any comments on effectiveness and ideal numbers would be great too. The colour scheme for these guys is still fairly simple: Blood Red tabard, Scorched Brown boots and belt, Burnished Gold (over Chaos Black) armour, Dwarf Flesh skin and Boltgun Metal on axes and chainmail and Graveyard Earth for the base (with added snow!). I think that over 25% of these guys also have Fortress Grey beards, 
which was a concious decision because they are meant to be the most trusted and the bodyguards of the Dwarf lords, etc. so it only seems fitting that they would have served and survived for a long time. You may have noticed this guy, who has the first cape that I ever sculpted and he is to be used as a King's Champion (because I will have characters in the Khazad Guard) and, failing that, I figured he could be a cool Captain for the guard :D He has had the gold armour washed with Chestnut Ink and thr Blood Red is replaced with Liche Purple and his cloak is just plain Chaos Black. Stands out and looks hard (note the Grey Beard. Can't be the best without having the experience).
Lastly, we have my characters! From left to right: Balin, banner bearer, captain with shield and Gimli. As I mentioned earlier, I am likely to end up with a spare Balin soon and I am undecided as to whether I should convert him, paint him differently (and maybe a little minor conversion) and use him as Dain Ironfoot, use both as captains or trade him off... Any thoughts would be welcomed :D
As you can see,
Balin has been painted in much the same way as the Khazad Guard, except he has a Scorched Brown cloak and his metal-shod boots are Boltgun metal. I didn't notice for a long time, but he is wearing a sort of battle crown and NOT a helmet, as I first thought, hence the top of his hair being Burnished Gold, instead of Chaos Black. However, that will be rectified soon enough (read: when I get some more Chaos Black, likely on Tuesday) and he shall be marvelous and resplendent. I also have noticed a chip in the paint on his beard, which will get tidied up and I've figured that I'd ask for suggestions on how to improve him or if I should use a different scheme: after all, the King's Champion has a black cloak and purple tabard, so Balin should look MORE impressive, with richer colours, rather than wearing the same as his guard. Ideas would be lovely, please :DThe banner bearer and the captain are both painted in the same way as the warriors (although it'll just be the shieldwarriors when I get around to it).
The banner bearer needs his trousers neatening up and I'm thinking that I should change thechainmail on him back to just Boltgun Metal (so, undo the Chestnut Ink on it). I gave him an Ultramarines Blue cloak, 
just to help keep him tied in to the warriors because he hasn't got loads of tabarding to paint. Anyhow, the raven is done in black to make it stand out and the banner itself is done in grey to fit with the cavens of living inside mountains and to make it poignant compared to the Dwarves below it. It has purple trimming because purple is a regal colour and I figured that it would likely be the personal banner of one of the lords. To tie the captain into this design, his cloak is also Fortress Grey and has a Liche Purple trim (freehanded, if memory serves) to match. Maybe that's something to do with the characters too? Or reverse it so that they are Liche Purple with a Fortress Grey trim.Finally, we come to the Dwarf that started it all:
my Gimli from the Mines of Moria box set. He's Scab Red, with a Liche Purple trim, Chaos Black trousers and gloves, Vermin Brown belt and boots, Scorched Brown beard (and one of the axe-handles), Kommando Khaki backpack (and other axe-handle), Dwarf Flesh skin, Boltgun Metal for all of the metal and Chestnut Ink on the helmet (as well as Catachan Green for his bedroll!). He fits into my Fellowship fairly well and looks okay, but I would like him to stand out and look great and, preferably, have matching axes (I couldn't decide which colour I preferred because the Scorched Brown seemed fitting, but the Kommando Khaki helped to lighten the model).
