Nightmare Legion - 100 Strong - Now with reinforcements P2!

[dieselmonkey]

Awesome. I kind of want to expand my paltry 15 of them into 100 and see how mad it is to play now...

I think there’s one other person I know of with a 100 strong Nightmare Legion. You could join a very exclusive and somewhat pointless club! Unfortunately when I was putting this together I was paying very little for the models, I suspect that has changed!

 

[Eric]

Guess you'll be wanting a badge for that! Damn and I've only just done a badge for the Femuary posts! The todo list is piling up (Febuhairy is next), might have to actually commission one of the old GW artists at some point to do them all properly!

 

[Citizen Sade]

A go big or go home badge for 100 figure regiments would be very exclusive club. Maybe there should be mono-pose monotony medals in bronze, silver and gold flavours too? Say bronze for 25 figures, silver for 50 and 100 for gold. The later regiments of renown would be for those who really relish a challenge given the trooper variants.

 

[Michael Stockin]

I suspect that has changed!

I have just ordered 5 which will take me up to 20, once those 5 are painted I will order 5 more and approach it that way.
Seeing 85 unpainted models will make me cry forever.

£5.00 each which seems very reasonable to me.

 

[dieselmonkey]

I have just ordered 5 which will take me up to 20, once those 5 are painted I will order 5 more and approach it that way.
Seeing 85 unpainted models will make me cry forever.

£5.00 each which seems very reasonable to me.

When I first started buying them, I was paying about £1 a model!

 

[Eric]

Seeing 85 unpainted models will make me cry forever.

Sorry Michael might safest for me to rescind that invitation to pop over to mine then!

 

[Michael Stockin]

Ha, I mean 85 unpainted for one unit.

85 unpainted as part of a collection is acceptable.

 

[Citizen Sade]

85 unpainted figures counts as a lead molehill not a mountain.

 

[dieselmonkey]

85 unpainted figures counts as a lead molehill not a mountain.

That’s not even the extent of my current painting queue!

 

[Ti Pouchon]

Damn and I've only just done a badge for the Femuary posts!

Haa, there he is! Didn't know it was you, assumed so, anyway, Thanks, it's a very nice badge!

Also,100 Skellybobs, are they nice and satisfactory or, ahaha, a 'nightmare' to paint?

 

[Fimm McCool]

Spealing personally I don't envy you. I painted 3 nightmare legion and found it quite enough! Just seemed like horrible models, and I like a vintage gribbly skeleton!

 

[Slave to Darkness]

100 of them is such a beautiful sight.

 

[dieselmonkey]

Spealing personally I don't envy you. I painted 3 nightmare legion and found it quite enough! Just seemed like horrible models, and I like a vintage gribbly skeleton!

I say this in the most affectionate way, but yes, they're objectively crap models. The Command are lovely, but the base troopers are very, very dated and soft on the details. It was an absolute slog to batch paint 100 in one go, as I stupidly didn't bother to do it in stages.

 

[dieselmonkey]

Updated the reinforcements post photos on P1, and here's a few more I've done since then:

First up, some heavy armoured Skeletons:



An original Corpse cart I managed to pick up:



More Ghouls! Also AD&D Ghasts and some night Horrors, as there are very few ghoul models for 3rd Ed.



A unit of Skelly archers:



A whole bunch of screaming skull catapults (and a Boney Bomber!)



Some chariots, both the plastic and metal command variants.



A few close ups on the coffin shields for asome infantry I've done.



A unit of Undead Knights:



I quite enjoy writing tiny slogans on things, and someone asked me who the undead would get to do that, so I decided to make a Skellybob Ross model for all your undead signwriting needs!

 

[Eric]

What an update! Love the purple in that unit. The chap behind the plague cart is great and Mr Ross is genius. Then those shields, love 'em. Then just the legions of the dead. I used to dream of having an army like that, wow, just wow. Love it!

 

[batu]

Amazing project! The Nightmare Legion are my fav! Great shield choice.

 

[Brother Meredith]

Echo @Eric’s comments! Those shield slogans are peak Warhammer!

Like the Earth Golem leading the ghouls!

 

[Michael Stockin]

Mr Ross is genius.

It is aces.

 

[Slave to Darkness]

I used to dream of having an army like that, wow, just wow. Love it!

Join ussssss... 😉

 

[Slave to Darkness]

Updated the reinforcements post photos on P1, and here's a few more I've done since then:

First up, some heavy armoured Skeletons:

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An original Corpse cart I managed to pick up:

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More Ghouls! Also AD&D Ghasts and some night Horrors, as there are very few ghoul models for 3rd Ed.

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A unit of Skelly archers:

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A whole bunch of screaming skull catapults (and a Boney Bomber!)

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Some chariots, both the plastic and metal command variants.

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A few close ups on the coffin shields for asome infantry I've done.

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A unit of Undead Knights:

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I quite enjoy writing tiny slogans on things, and someone asked me who the undead would get to do that, so I decided to make a Skellybob Ross model for all your undead signwriting needs!

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Damn fine looking army.