Ellyrian warhost

 

I thought it was time for a new armyphoto of my project of rebasing and repainting my High Elf army.
The army so far is themed at the kingdom of Ellyrion so lots of horses and speed. Unfortunately you cannot field Unicorns and Pegasus's according to the rules but I might borrow rules from the Dark Elves or Bretonnians in the future just for fun, but for now I will keep it rules legal.

The rebase and repaint project is themed for the movement or speed so lots of horses or flying miniature.
And with a blue/purple/white colour scheme.

This should get me around 1000pts repainted High Elves.

The complete High Elf project in its current state can be found in this link: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/search/label/High%20Elves

High elf great eagles

Next out for my growing repainted High elf army is a pair of Great Eagles.
The miniatures are from Gamezone Miniatures. http://www.gamezoneminiatures.com/tienda/en/ Im not sure if they are still in business but their website seems to be up and running.

The sculpts must be at least 20years by now. I remember when I first saw them and they were so far ahead of any competitor or the GW eagles that was available then.
These are manufactured just a couple of years ago but they have been unpainted for far to long still. So it feels good to finally give them the love they deserve.
I still think they are the best eagles sculpts on the market.

Painting wise I wanted to have a white or gray eagle and is heavily inspired by the White-bellied sea eagle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-bellied_sea_eagle
Its not a direct copy as I wanted to have more blue tones in my gray to tie it more into my other force.

Im really happy with the end result.

High Elf Lord on Griffon

 
I wanted to have a swift Lord on a griffon, adding some mutch needed variation to a horse heavy themed force.
The miniature is a basic High Elf lord from the old Island of Blood box.

Paintingwise I wanted to add some yellow on the griffon to add some new colours to my other white/purple/blue scheme I went with for my elves. So the beak and front claws got yellow.
For the feline part of the griffon I initially wanted a snow leopard look, but many of the snow leopards pictures I looked at had lots of yellow in their fur and as I wanted something to break away from the elven rider I went with that but enhanced the yellow fur even more. It ended more like a leopard then the snow leopard I started to look for inspiration from but I like it.

On the long cape of the lord I painted a tree on to represent a nighelm tree from the forests of Ellyrion, thinking the forests around the mountains would be a natural habitat for the griffon.

The nighelm is a tree found in forests of Ellyrion with magical properties. It can protect against magic.
https://https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Nightelm_woodwarhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Nightelm_wood

High Elf Mage

 

I felt I needed a Mage mounted on a horse to keep up with my mounted theme. 

This miniatures is one of the last "new" miniatures I bought a little before Games Workshop did all their stupid End times so it counts as one of my "newer" High Elves miniatures...

Its was a small box of plastic miniatures with enough bits to make one mounded mage and one mage on foot.

Paintingwise I wanted a sort of foggy miniatures, using toned down colours to make him sort of one with the mist, almost ghostly.
I used a small selective collection of toned down colours, but to make the miniature stand out a little I used some more "stranger" colours on his cape.

Im not totally happy with the end result but it will do.

High Elves, Ellyrian Noble

 

I wanted a minor nobleman to my Ellyrion themed army.
And I found this old school miniature in my collection, he was in rather bad shape with a missing sword and tired older cloth barder horse.
I gave him the top of a sword that I think comes from an archer kit. I gave him a "new" larger stead, a new shield and bow.

I think he turned out out great and I its fun to give a old miniature a new breath of life.