love high elves and army projects! keep up the hustle!

Very cool and some nice bargain finds there. My main army growing up was High Elves. I had an until of Dragon princes that I had converted to be riding lions from the chariot packs instead of the lame horse sculpts from back then. Loved using that unit, tho their tails made it’s a nightmare if anybody ever got a rear charge on me.

@thedicelab

5 ай бұрын

I love unique conversions like that. Makes an army feel special. I wish I could find a few of the white lion chariot kits at a reasonable price. Best I’ve seen lately is around $70 on eBay.

The color scheme is great. Whole reason I clicked on the video

@thedicelab

5 ай бұрын

Oh man! Haha that’s pushing me back towards doing the whole army in this scheme. I’ll paint up some test minis from each unit for Episode 2 and share the results.

Sick man. I'm doing up my high elves when I get my empire done :)

Great project. This helps motivate me. I don't really care for your red/seafoam/dirty gold scheme. I agree with the earlier commenter about the seafoam lacking depth. I'm terrible at picking color schemes, and I can only really say what I like. Thanks very much for posting this video. Your hard work and passion are evident!

@thedicelab

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your feedback. I think over the years I’ve painted so many armies for different games that I feel the need to try to always find a different color scheme but sometimes the desire to find something fresh leads to something just odd lol I’m thinking I’ll drop the sea foam color and go with a red, gold, and a neutral color like black, grey, or white.

@DMHightower

5 ай бұрын

@@thedicelab I'm excited to see your final selection of the color!

Good Luck with the project, nice little video you talked well and presented your minis clearly. It's only if i finish my Main Army but High Elves are going to be next for sure. I think a good colour scheme will help tie them together but right now i think there's a little too many mixed aesthetics, the Bolt Thrower and Lumineth Characters are fine and the Lumineth Archers would make great Shadow Warriors or Sisters of Avelorn (i think that's the name, they are a top pick btw) but are maybe a bit fancy to be militia archers, the Seaguard would have you covered there anyways. However i think the Lion renders you've chosen are a step too far, imo, i would strongly suggest you look for ones a bit closer to the IP in looks (the Lion animals though are awesome, keep those for sure). Quick search Holo Miniatures 'highborn elves' have some decent White Lions, 'Silvermoor elves' are nice and a guy called elfhead3d does awesome IP-fitting elves but no Lions yet that i could see sadly 😞.

@thedicelab

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! I grabbed a white lion hero from Holo miniatures and I think he looks pretty neat. I’d definitely be open to getting more of there elves. I’m hoping the sisters of avelorn will come back in stock through gw as I really like the official sculpts and want to grab a box. I think for now I’m rolling with the white lion 3D prints I have. Though, it’s primarily due to a lack of hobby budget for this project. My big purchases next are going to be some kind of dragon so I can run a dragon mage at 2k points. Hopefully the official kit also comes back in stock on gw. I may try to use a 3D print dragon for now but it’s tough to gauge how well they will fit on the dragon base size. Next episode I will put a breakdown of the money I’ve spent so far on this army and I think people will be surprised at how inexpensive it’s been so far since I’ve been cobbling it together somewhat thriftily.

Panzees huh? Looking good though! I like White Lions, more than the other Elite units. Whaaagh!

I'm thinking of converting the Stoneguard to white lions. Cutting of their big horns or perhaps finding other heads.

@thedicelab

5 ай бұрын

That could be cool. Headswaps might not be too tough. Maybe 3D printed heads? My big struggle right now is figuring out a good mini for a dragon and I’d like to magnetize the rider so it can be a mage or a prince.

@valandhol9four680

5 ай бұрын

@@thedicelab but the High Elves range got a few dragons that look okay imo, otherwise there should be some other

@jasonp9519

5 ай бұрын

​@@thedicelab I'm planning on just using a stormcast draconith, flying stand base with a lumineth horse rider on top should work well

Scheme is pretty cool but dunno about the sea foam colour. Maybe if theres more depth to it, then it could work.

@thedicelab

5 ай бұрын

I could possibly switch the seafoam color to a very pale baby blue or maybe yellow. Will have to do some tests and see what looks good.

Nice project. Are you really going to keep those ridiculous bows?

@thedicelab

5 ай бұрын

Haha i understand the sentiment. I know Lumineth gets a lot of hate, but I really like the ridiculous aesthetic, especially for elves. I’d even use the huge cow if I could think of a suitable profile to proxy it as

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On one hand the different ranges lack cohesion. On the other they come from different provinces of Ulthuan. Im mixed about this as it doesnt “look” old world. Maybe once its painted, but I think the heads/helms are just off on the new stuff.

@thedicelab

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I agree there’s definitely a lack of cohesion mixing the ranges at this stage. I’m hoping that having them all painted in a cohesive color scheme will pull it all together. And if not, I guess I’ll lean into the different provinces theme : D

Good luck with your army project.