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So I'm recently getting into AoS. Never really played WHFB but I'm really liking the rules for AoS. I plan on picking up 1000pts and seeing where to go from there.

So the faction I'm interested in is Nighthaunt. Something about ghosts just seemed cool as gak. The I wondered how I could customize it. 

A friend of mine came up with the idea of doing a Haunted Woods ghostygoo army using Sylvaneth models, painted and converted to Nighthaunt models. Spirit hosts coming out of trees and whatnot. 

So my list for 1000pts is this, with the treedude conversions next to them.

2x Wraiths - 2 branchwych with scythe
1x Banshee - branchwraith
6x Spirits - 16 dryads + 9 ghosts (mix the two between squads so it looks more ghosty altogether)
5x Hexwraiths - 5x spite revenants 
1x Mourngul - Treelord (use most of the Durthu sprues for extra skulls and nonsense, both claw arms)

>Spirit Hosts
Skeletons and Trees with Spirits coming out of the trees. Stumps and scraggly looking trees. 
>Wraiths
Still not sure on this one. Probably some cross between the Branchwych and the Cairn Wraith. Maybe use third party.
>Banshee
Seeing as I'll only ever have two, I imagine, a wispily converted Dryad and a Branchwych will be fine I think.
>Hexwraiths 
This is the most difficult one, partly because of the wysiwyg for 'horse hooves and teeth' but I figured Spite Revenants would work for the visual, and maybe give branchy looking wings? I'm a bit lost on this one.
>Mourngul 
I like both the FW model and the Treelord model, but at the same time it doesn't look too hard it makes a Treelord spooky. Use bits from the mortis engine, coven throne and the like.
Which isn't that bad for a starter army, in my opinion.

What do you lads think? Am I a goddamned fool? Do you think people would be too weird about using Sylvaneth as Nighthaunt? Part of my issue is the lack of variety with the Nighthaunt models, but then it's also kinda iffy to use Sylvaneth as an entirely different army...

Haha, not a fool at all!

I've seen quite a few undead sylvaneth armies that were vengeful forest spirits.

Most ambitious one I've seen is a chaos bog one.

http://objectivesecured.blogspot.com/2017/04/bog-sylvaneth-tainted.html?m=1

As for some ideas, you could save yourself some trouble with the wraiths and just make ghostly pale dryads with swirls around the legs or spirits coming out of them. Hollow creatures that act as a puppet for the eldritch beings hiding inside of it and come out to attack.

Hexwraiths could be just head swapped wood elf cavalry with the reverants and mounts given a ghostly upgrade with bones and branches coming out of their bodies. (The giant insects acting as grubs and emerging from a mount's side could be a nice touch)

If you go the wing route then maybe make them centaurs with a second pair of wooden legs behind them and connected with bones and vines to the main body?

Those are my ideas, at any rate.

Yeah, the dryads are actually really really good for making creepy, ghostly looking figures.

Hexwraiths... one thought is dryads kind of fused with skeletal cavalry. i like the skeleton horses a lot and with a bit of work, maybe bits of branches coming from their eye sockets and such, they could look like the bones of horses that a haunted tree grew through and animated... Just a random idea.