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Title: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Captain Blood on March 26, 2011, 05:30:54 PM
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Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Andy0476 on March 27, 2011, 09:43:35 AM
This is a tough one to call. I really like the painting on both, but always had a soft spot for dead and creepy things ...
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Thantsants on March 27, 2011, 10:48:59 AM
Yep - a tough call indeed!

Nice work Pil on those skellies though!

Love the contrast between the orange terrain and the green armour too!
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Heldrak on March 27, 2011, 10:51:55 AM
I had to go with the Skellies in the end but that's beautiful small-scale work, Broadside.
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: phreedh on March 27, 2011, 11:03:06 AM
Broadside, top painting and great photo! Pil, awesome skellies! Tough round, indeed.
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Fire Broadside! on March 27, 2011, 05:24:27 PM
Thanks everyone! This is a good match I think.

I quite liked painting these guys. I went with green to match my UNSC marines, but I think I might try some kind of beige/terracotta camo on the next batch. I've got 20 more to paint.  :D
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Wirelizard on March 27, 2011, 05:29:58 PM
15mm Mars vs really nicely done undead... sheesh. Where's that coin, time to flip it again!

I've been doing a slow-burn 15mm Martian project for... close to a decade now. One of these years I shall complete it!
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Ray Rivers on March 27, 2011, 09:05:58 PM
I went with green to match my UNSC marines

So they are GZG?
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Fire Broadside! on March 27, 2011, 09:09:50 PM
So they are GZG?

My marines, yes. These guys, no. They're a newish line from Blue Moon Manufacturing (https://www.bluemoonmanufacturing.com/view_product.php?product=15ALN-101). They're really nice sculpts and all ten are actually different. Pretty cool!
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Ray Rivers on March 27, 2011, 10:36:28 PM
Thanks for the link.

Blue Moon keeps surprising...
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Pil on March 28, 2011, 02:12:15 AM
Very nice painting on the power suits Broadside, well done! Are the bases 20mm round? There seems to be some paint on the side of the bases still or is it an illusion? I love your photograph too!

Thanks to everyone who voted or commented on my second Nightmare legion, I took some pics of my (by now) 66 strong legion which I will post after this round is done 8)
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Frank on March 28, 2011, 08:51:23 AM
Both a really nice painted and fantastic photos!
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Fire Broadside! on March 28, 2011, 09:51:05 AM
Very nice painting on the power suits Broadside, well done! Are the bases 20mm round? There seems to be some paint on the side of the bases still or is it an illusion? I love your photograph too!

Thanks Pil! They're 20mm bases indeed, got a whole bag of them from em4. I noticed the paint shades just when I had torn down all the photo stuff and didn't really have the time to set it all up again. Basically, when I touched up the base to cover some red smudges I didn't cover the whole edge. You can't really see it with the naked eye, but the camera is an merciless bastard!  >:(
Well, it's something to think about next time.

Your legion is looking great! I especially like all the rust and that you use it liberaly. :D

EDIT: I take it by your comment that you're using the LPL as an opportunity to make an army Pil. Same here, and it's working great!
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: valleyboy on March 28, 2011, 10:02:44 AM
Both are excellent and difficult to separate so I thought about a coin as well

I hadn't appreciated the quality of the rust on the skellies until I just had my second look & there's clearly and awful lot of talent gone into those 15mm figs as well

Well done both
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Pil on March 28, 2011, 01:43:21 PM
Thanks Pil! They're 20mm bases indeed, got a whole bag of them from em4. I noticed the paint shades just when I had torn down all the photo stuff and didn't really have the time to set it all up again. Basically, when I touched up the base to cover some red smudges I didn't cover the whole edge. You can't really see it with the naked eye, but the camera is an merciless bastard!  >:(
Well, it's something to think about next time.

Your legion is looking great! I especially like all the rust and that you use it liberaly. :D

EDIT: I take it by your comment that you're using the LPL as an opportunity to make an army Pil. Same here, and it's working great!

I figured the bases would be a matter of one black over another black, it doesn't detract from your photograph though, they still look very good, especially for 15mm models 8)

The army I am building is already there, here are some pictures of it:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=25017.0

I am using the LPL to add to it though, and since I had a tournament (2000 points Warhammer Fantasy Battle) last weekend I had to paint up some more units to be able to field the army I wanted. I will enter a different unit I painted for the tournament (and the LPL) in round 4. I find the LPL to be v ery useful for building armies though sometimes a bit of repetitiveness in the type of entries kicks in. So for round 5 I'm doing something different and after that it's probably back to my undead 8)
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Faber on March 28, 2011, 08:09:03 PM
i personally don't like 15mm stuff, but finally a gorgeous paintjob on it! well done Fire Broadside...
Anyway, those WFB old school skulls have no opponents for me. LOVE THEM Pil!  :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Fire Broadside! on March 29, 2011, 08:51:36 PM
I've been doing a slow-burn 15mm Martian project for... close to a decade now. One of these years I shall complete it!

Cool! I'd love to see it. Any pictures online anywhere?
Title: Re: ROUND 3 The Nightmare Legion vs 15mm Earth Sectorial Army, Ma.K Heavy Infantry
Post by: Wirelizard on March 30, 2011, 06:23:09 AM
Cool! I'd love to see it. Any pictures online anywhere?

There's one 15mm figure here, and some 25mm in the same camo scheme:
http://www.warbard.ca/2010/09/24/sg2-gallery-4-unsc-aliens/

Somewhere I have a couple of in-game photos of my 15mm IFVs & MBT that go along with the UNSC Martian Legion infantry, but apparently not online. I've also got another small batch of APCs, light combat vehicles and civvie/paramilitary trucks and the like that I've never taken photos of, and which I've never bought the infantry for to make them a usable force. All my 15mm SF stuff is buried in a box somewhere, it's been at least two years since I've used it.

At one point I made up six or eight rocky Martian hills, but I left them up at the gaming club to reduce clutter and they went home with someone shortly after that...   :-[

Like I said, it's a slow-burn project. A very, very slow burn project.