Here are a few photos of a High Elf army for HOTT







Built around the High Elves army pack, along with an additional wizard from (I think) FD8 and a wizard's table from DN27.

Must acknowledge my debt to this site for inspiration: http://www.coolminiornot.com/30446, to a friendly staff member at the local Games Workshop store for advice on colour selection and to this site for the shield/flag motifs: http://www.hourofwolves.org/?view=flagsAndShields&which=elfShields&full=1 (I reduced the badges to fit the 10mm figures from the 28mm originals and removed the shield-shaped background so that they'd fit, then printed them on ink-jet decal paper. The standard bearer's flag was made from lead foil, otherwise figures are out of the box).

Hope they are of interest

Excellent work !
Cheers - Phil.

Very nice indeed!

Those are brilliant. 

 

Great stuff,



and many thanks for the link for the shields as I've been mulling over what to
use on my Elves for a while now.

W

Great.
Now just double the number of minis on every base, and you should be just fine.

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...  to a friendly staff member at the local Games Workshop store for advice  ...

Traitor!

Many thanks for the comments - sorry about the GW reference fsn but sad to say it's the only 'model' shop left around here since MZ closed 

Don't mind FSN, he forgot his centurion pills again 


Great army!!

Are those 20x40mm and 40x40mm bases?

A mixture of bases depths, Andy. All are 40mm frontage. The magicians (including the commmand) are 40 x 40, knights 40 x 30, shooters (archers) 40 x 20 and spears 40 x 15. I think that's correct for HOTT. Bases are from Pendraken.

Number of figures is at the lowest end for the HOTT rules. Partly that was to save time in painting and partly to make it easier to base and then paint. I prefer to base first but struggle if there are too many figs on a base. But I agree with barbarian that more figures would be nice.

I have a politic about Painting and Basing for gaming :
If you cannot reach it with the brush, it won't be seen on the table, therefore, don't paint it.

QuoteIf you cannot reach it with the brush, it won't be seen on the table, therefore, don't paint it

Wise words, Sir.

Great work sir.