A Summer of Citadel: Restoring a Nightmare Legionnaire and Arcane Armorial Shield

I had my daughter staying with us this weekend and among other things made the journey up to the National History Museum. The heat has returned and I was sweltering in my new hobby room within minutes of entry. Despite these factors, I managed to restore this old boney. The Leadhead Who Cannot Be Named sent me a fistful of minis a while back that were in an appalling state of affairs. Lead rot, dried enamels, dust and grease. Most of them are soaking in a bucket out of the way at the moment as the smell of them is beyond the pale. Dettol will be incoming for the lot later in the year.

My original painted Nightmare Legion in the early days of Oldhammer. 

I pulled this figure out of the top of the mess as it still had it's base on and wasn't as filthy as others. Long term readers of this blog may well remember I painted up the entire Nightmare Legion set years back. I used a black and white scheme, so these figures are well known to me. I didn't want to go the same route again and had a couple of old shields with some transfers on kicking about, again donated by you wonderful readers.

I'm quite pleased with the restoration. It was quick and easy. These figures are quite primitive even by '80s standard and the casting was rather battered. I used my normal bone mix. Normal chainmail mix too, with a little blue/black ink for shading and age. The shield was more interesting to work on as it was partially damaged. Only around the edges mind you. If you squint carefully you can see I just blocked out the damage in black and painted on the suggestion of bare wood. 

Not bad at all for a speedpaint. Though posting this figure up tonight made me realise that I have been rather conservative with my painting choices. Nothing fantastical really. Luckily I have a few more interesting pieces to hand that I have on the painting table once the cooler weather arrives next week. I also have based and prepped a couple of nice old fighters too. 

Last post a couple of you mentioned storage in my embryonic workshop. I have rescued these two wooden shelving units for just that purpose. The top one was used by the previous owner of the house to store nails, screws and bolts of different sizes in jam jars. This will need as thorough scrub down and clean before it sees use. Below you can see the second unit which is in a much better state of affairs. To the right, you can see the old 1970s classroom storage cabinets which will be used to pack away the bulk of my re-established collection. 

See you all soon,

Orlygg