The Hobbit - Dwarves of the Iron Hills

Concept design for Dain and his Iron Hill Dwarves who appear in The Battle Of Five Armies. The design for the basic soldier armour resolved with planar surfaces across the entire plate armour, much like that of a faceted gemstone to express the skill of dwarven metalcraft.

Dain's armour then evolved as a more elaborate version of the foot soldier. He is also depicted here on boar mount, which was later scaled down and modelled after a kune kune pig. His red axe was also swapped out for a warhammer.