Thanks guys thats really helpful. I haven't softened anything at all in any consistent form on the models as yet as I wanted to finish tweaking them first. Not sure if that's the right way to go about it!

Thanks for that tip on reversing things Darkware - I do get those weird black spots when I have been trying it and, having experimented on a weirdly extruded cube for the practice that reversing thing works well. I had been thinking you could only soften individual edges rather than the whole model at once so that's also useful.

I am planning on finishing the dwarf body then I shall post softened versions of both models for final suggestions on tweaking before I unwrap them. I was going to do some today but I pulled a 14 hr shift and i can't be arsed to do anything but veg out (excuses excuses!).