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Hi everybody,

Corona time is keeping us all from playing for the most part, so what to do with that spare hobby time?

Right, taking pictures of your army!

So I made some pictures of my High Elves, I hope you like them.

Here is an overview of the painted part of my High Elf forces.





The base of a High Elf force always will be the Militia trained with Spear...




.... or Longbow. The Standard of the Archers was designed as Army Standard Bearer in the Tears of Isha Campaign I played with a friend in 2018/2019.
My second attempt on a freehand banner so... still lots of room to improve






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A unit that combines both of these important features of the High Elf Force is the Lothern Seaguard.



The most famous breed of horses in whole Ulthuan stem from the lands of Ellyria.

The Ellyrian Reavers are respected and feared for the unsurpassed skill in riding these wonderful animals and making good use of their bows from their backs.

A very useful unit, that's why I have 2x 5 of them.





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The Elven Highborn earn their first laurels as part of the Silver Helm Cavalry.



Only the invincible Dragon Princes of Caledor surpass their Skill with Sword and Lance.

Wait a minute... I guess I have seen this army fifteen years ago irl. Are you from Kassel?

Swift and deadly, the Charioteers from Tiranoc can crush the enemy both with ranged and close combat attacks.




The White Lions are ferocious beasts who can tear a man apart with a single strike of their mighty claws.






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My army is lead by a mighty Wizard Lord, riding on Pin'kill'da'Humys, an ancient Dragon.



Wizards ...



are often accompanied by a regiment of the famed Swordmasters of Hoeth, who wield their Greatswords with grace and deadly swiftness.

Wow, nice talking with ya.

The Lions of Chrace stand to defend the Phoenix King, with their wild approach on how to take the battle to the enemy they differ a lot from the other elite infantry units the High Elves can muster.



Stealthy and deadly, the Shadow Warriors from ancient Nagarythe, robbed of their homeland by the treachery of their siblings, are always eager to spill the blood of every Dark Elf who dares to land upon Ulthuan's shores. I used some old Wood Elf archer models for them.




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The High Elves can also rely on units specialized in ranged combat, such as the Sisters of Avelorn. Their magic arrows kill man and incorporeal spirit alike.



And of course, the hail of arrows fired by the Eagle Claw Bolt Throwers, or, if needs to be, bigger calibres against monstrous beasts.





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 Strg Alt wrote:
Wow, nice talking with ya.

Sorry,

I kinda missed the messages in between, they weren't showing until now. Odd... ( Or I was just too dumb noticing... both ways possible )



So, no, I am not from Kassel, I am from Albstadt, far south. I bought a part of the army (partly) painted. Seemingly no one wanted pink High Elves.

I planned to change the color scheme to red, but the guys at my gaming club were so uber with picking on how sweeeeeeet my new Elves were looking,

that I decided that bein punished on the battlefield by a pink army would suit them just right. So I sticked with the color scheme and added some more units to the basic.
And to be honest, I really like the color scheme by now!

Good looking stuff there.

Do you have an army theme or background story for them?

 Brutus_Apex wrote:
Good looking stuff there.

Do you have an army theme or background story for them?

Thank you!

It is still in the making.

I asked in a High Elf Forum if there was any Elven House known to have pink and white as a Coat of Arms, but seems like there is none.

So I thought about settling my backstory in some forgotten Elven Colony. But that makes it kind of difficult to justify all the special units based in Ulthuan, which were not even founded back when the Elven Colonies in the Old World were founded, for example Sword Masters.

So, I can either dump that idea of forgotten Elven Colony, or I have to come up with a new background story for each of these special units.

This hurts me orcish head

Go for the Forgotten Elven Colony, and make up a new back story for the special units. One of my pet peeves in this hobby is the adherence and reliance to GW's cannon. I encourage you to make up your own background on these models. On a different note, interesting army that you have there.

Could always make up a minor house that uses those colors, too.

The colony idea sounds cool.

You could make them part of a smaller province in Ulthuan, or maybe even one of the many islands off the east coast of Lustria. There are quite a few Elvish colonies in those parts.

Hmm...

a combination of all of the above would also be really interesting.

Say, an upstart Noble with a lot of good connections convinced the Phoenix King to let him build a new Elven Colony in Lustria, as a counterweight to Dark Elves ambitions.

Remember that the direct son of Aenarion was taken to "The colonies" and lost contact with Ulthuan. I am sure that there are more than a few of errant colonies on some remote island that High Elves fortified and made it "Shifting" or "Invisible."

TinyLegions wrote:
Remember that the direct son of Aenarion was taken to "The colonies" and lost contact with Ulthuan. I am sure that there are more than a few of errant colonies on some remote island that High Elves fortified and made it "Shifting" or "Invisible."

Ooooh that's something to build up on!!

Aenarion's son and daughter did not remain lost, he just spent a long while in hiding as he did not trust Malekith, and this was when Malekith was supposedly loyal.

We know Tyrion and Teclis are descended from this line, so it did return to Ulthuan, but this is not to say they all did. A branch of the family might still reside in a hidden colony. This princedom might well have pink and white as its house colours, and due to the legacy might retain an honour guard from each of the provinces.

Nice looking

These are nicely done, good quality paint jobs to be proud of, but I am not sure with the choice of pink.

Pink is.. a bold move, to be sute

They certainly look comfortable in their elfulinity.

 Vermis wrote:
They certainly look comfortable in their elfulinity.

I accidently built a She-Male in my Sisters of Avelorn unit. It's a plastic kit from which you can build either Sisters of Avelorn or Shadow Warriors.


While picking the parts for the Sisters, I assumed all the long-haired heads were those for the Sisters and the ones with a helmet were supposed to be the heads of the Shadow Warriors.

Right, except for one, which turned out to have a very masculine appearance on top of that heart-shaped boob armor

Replace the head. Simple fix. If it was the other way around and a shadow warrior torso I would have said, keep her, she is a flat chested girl.

I have found it extraordinarily difficult to kitbash females. I tried it with a chaos warrior. I gave her a crotch gap, wider thighs and made her slightly shorter, but because I dibnt give her boob armour, or no helmet she just didnt look right, and most people didnt recognise she was feminine until told. Yes obvious female chest armour is normally not necessary, yet for fantasy miniatures you need to hit all the stereotypes or it doesnt work.
A bare head however fixes every ambiguity.

 Orlanth wrote:
Replace the head. Simple fix. If it was the other way around and a shadow warrior torso I would have said, keep her, she is a flat chested girl.

I have found it extraordinarily difficult to kitbash females. I tried it with a chaos warrior. I gave her a crotch gap, wider thighs and made her slightly shorter, but because I dibnt give her boob armour, or no helmet she just didnt look right, and most people didnt recognise she was feminine until told. Yes obvious female chest armour is normally not necessary, yet for fantasy miniatures you need to hit all the stereotypes or it doesnt work.
A bare head however fixes every ambiguity.

A female chaos warrior has been released for AoS. She comes with axe & shield. I didn't pick her up because of the obnoxious price tag attached to her.

Moscha wrote:While picking the parts for the Sisters, I assumed all the long-haired heads were those for the Sisters and the ones with a helmet were supposed to be the heads of the Shadow Warriors.

Right, except for one, which turned out to have a very masculine appearance on top of that heart-shaped boob armor

The one just visible past the unit leader's sword, with no tiara like the others?

I'm working on a small bunch of sisters at the moment, kitbashing and converting with plenty of putty to make them generally less armoured, more individual (all those clone heads...) and still relatively feminine looking. As feminine-looking as a dual kit with a bunch of gritty commandos allows. It's a chore.

All of which to say: yup, I know the bit you're talking about.

(And kinda-sorta on-topic, I don't feel so weird about putting a bunch of extra hearts on 'em.)

And I'll add to my last post: the pink looks unusual, but it's a well-painted pink!

Strg Alt wrote:A female chaos warrior has been released for AoS. She comes with axe & shield. I didn't pick her up because of the obnoxious price tag attached to her.

The darkoath queen? First time I've seen it. GW gets a free pass for the 'plate bra' by making all the exposed areas covered in scars.

Regular chaos warriors (the current plastics, I assume) are tricky because they're pretty cluttered, the forms hidden under multiple layers and oversized features: furs, cloaks, mail, thigh armour, huge boots, etc.

 Vermis wrote:

Moscha wrote:While picking the parts for the Sisters, I assumed all the long-haired heads were those for the Sisters and the ones with a helmet were supposed to be the heads of the Shadow Warriors.

Right, except for one, which turned out to have a very masculine appearance on top of that heart-shaped boob armor

The one just visible past the unit leader's sword, with no tiara like the others?

Yep, that's him/her

I'm working on a small bunch of sisters at the moment, kitbashing and converting with plenty of putty to make them generally less armoured, more individual (all those clone heads...) and still relatively feminine looking. As feminine-looking as a dual kit with a bunch of gritty commandos allows. It's a chore.

All of which to say: yup, I know the bit you're talking about.

(And kinda-sorta on-topic, I don't feel so weird about putting a bunch of extra hearts on 'em.)

And I'll add to my last post: the pink looks unusual, but it's a well-painted pink!

Well thanks a lot, I sure am no master painter, but it looks nice enough on the table to not be ashamed of, I am really not too good at converting. Always a bit unsure of if I
m gonna like the outcome or if I am just ruining the figure...

 Vermis wrote:

Strg Alt wrote:A female chaos warrior has been released for AoS. She comes with axe & shield. I didn't pick her up because of the obnoxious price tag attached to her.

The darkoath queen? First time I've seen it. GW gets a free pass for the 'plate bra' by making all the exposed areas covered in scars.

Regular chaos warriors (the current plastics, I assume) are tricky because they're pretty cluttered, the forms hidden under multiple layers and oversized features: furs, cloaks, mail, thigh armour, huge boots, etc.

That is a chaos marauder character, not a chaos warrior character. Identifying gender is a lot easier when you don't wear much, and the male marauder infantry have eaten all the roids.

 Orlanth wrote:

 Vermis wrote:

Strg Alt wrote:A female chaos warrior has been released for AoS. She comes with axe & shield. I didn't pick her up because of the obnoxious price tag attached to her.

The darkoath queen? First time I've seen it. GW gets a free pass for the 'plate bra' by making all the exposed areas covered in scars.

Regular chaos warriors (the current plastics, I assume) are tricky because they're pretty cluttered, the forms hidden under multiple layers and oversized features: furs, cloaks, mail, thigh armour, huge boots, etc.

That is a chaos marauder character, not a chaos warrior character. Identifying gender is a lot easier when you don't wear much, and the male marauder infantry have eaten all the roids.

Ah, you are right. I guess we have to wait until GW gets their act together and releases a true female chaos warrior in glorious skimpy boob plate.

GW dont do skimpy boob plate unless Slaaneshi or Dark Eldar/Elf. They are not into cheesecake outside of factions which specifically are, which is rare in the industry frankly.

The current slaves to darkness chaos warriors have male and female head options I have been told.

Yeah, I am aware of that. It doesn't suit a mini line well, if you change the aesthetics in a fundamental way.

Just checked to see the "rumoured" female chaos warriors. The painted minis on the box cover show only faceless cannon fodder wearing helmets. Either they didn't bother building one which is highly unlikely as it would be new stuff or the rumour is simply false.

I don't like the new witch elves very much because their hair sucks. Compared to the two generations of models that came before them, they are simply inferior. Much better would have been a modern take on their 80s hairstyle but GW's model designer neglected to sculpt their most iconic feature.

And it may seem to sound like a broken record but also their price tag was ludicrous. I can still remember when the new dark elf wave was released and the two other elite choices, namely tower guard & executioners, were much cheaper than the frenzied damsels.

For high elves Laughing Monk thru Euerka minis Australia make 3 female conversion kits; full armor, semi-armor, and cloth (for the archer kit). Just order a few myself. Always kinda figured elves fought in mixed ranks so I can add them it. All together I think I got 36 torsos and heads to use. Plan to add to Seaguard, spears, archers, silver helms, Tiranoc chariots, and knock out a few lords and heroes.

 Strg Alt wrote:
Yeah, I am aware of that. It doesn't suit a mini line well, if you change the aesthetics in a fundamental way.

Just checked to see the "rumoured" female chaos warriors. The painted minis on the box cover show only faceless cannon fodder wearing helmets. Either they didn't bother building one which is highly unlikely as it would be new stuff or the rumour is simply false.

Not a rumor, bottom left:

Thanks for the pic.

Hmm, so they ONLY cared to make a female head and not a female torso with legs? GW did a similar half-assed job back in 3rd 40K. Their Dark Eldar warriors had a single female torso but no female head in the sprue. You might think there would have been ample time between then and now for improvement on that matter but nope.

Truth be said it wasn't too bad for the Dark Eldar as the males have an lithe physique anyway. But just think about a barrel-chested torso with a female head attached to it. That would certainly look odd.
And finally the female head has been marred by a nose ring. It's not downright ugly but pretty bad nonetheless. I didn't expect a super model but this just won't do.

Overall the new models don't make me want to include them in my collection. I compare them towards the CSM that came along in the Dark Vengeance box set. Now these guys wore very nice looking power armour compared to the preceding generation of traitor marines. These fellas made me buy the box set.
Looking at this brand new chaos warrior box doesn't grip me with excitement at all. GW dropped the ball there. What a waste.