Flickr member Steven Erickson a.k.a Brother Steven shared his creation built for the Classic Castle Contest XI - Custom Faction category. The emblems are inspired from Finnish heraldry. According to Steven, the gold details at the top of the shields represent forests and the cross represents faith and the white spirals represent birch bark trumpets. The stickers on torsos and shields are looking really authentic. Maybe additional triangular shields could add some additional diversity. Flesh colored figure heads made the figures more realistic. I think he has a very good chance of winning in this category.

CCCXI Warriors of Finland