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After agreeing to get into fantasy I decided to pick up IoB and the battalion for High Elves

As someone that has only painted Nids and Necrons in the past I'm a little wary using an army which potentially contains a lot of robes and cloth, I'd really like to apply a scheme that looks effective but doesn't have white robes / garments

Having looked on coolmini for inspiration I've found a lot of the schemes are variations of blue / white or teal

Has anyone had any success with a different colour of clothing on High Elves and if so what works well on the eye alongside it, the thing I'm most concerned about are the archers

I was thinking of a nice majestic red colour for the shields, cloth pieces and then silver / gold or bronze for parts of the helmets and shield patterns, no idea how this will turn out might try one tonight but any suggestions are welcome.

Ideally I'd like to keep white down to a minimum and an option is something along the lines of the Sin'Dorei from WoW aka Blood Elves

http://www.ulthuan.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=38667