Aaron Lovejoy's Eldar Cobra

Aaron Lovejoy is a multiple Golden Deamon winner who paints the armies of a bunch of us down here in SoCal.  His work is amazing and here is an Eldar Cobra he did for Shawn Green.

Welcome to my World....

 

 

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Alec Peters, and I run SoCal Apocalypse, the Los Angeles GW Battle Bunker based Apocalypse club. I also write the Star Trek Prop, Costume & Auction Blog, which is all about screen-used Star Trek props & costumes, which I have been writing for 4 years. I have over 5,000 unique readers a month and my hobby lead me to start a business, Propworx, which is an auction house that works directly with Hollywood studios to sell the props & costumes of their movies and TV shows after they are done. We handled the Battlestar Galactica auctions for NBC/Universal, the Iron Man auction for Marvel Studios, Stargate for MGM and Star Trek for CBS.

I live in Newport Beach CA and play in three different Apocalypse groups in Southern California: my SoCal Apocalypse club at the LA Bunker, John Macomber's Apoc group in San Diego (they run the Broadside Bash 40K tournament too) and Wayne Clark's monthly Apoc club out in Ontario (as in Ontario, CA, not Ontario Canada!).  

I have a pretty big Space Marine army but I simply don't have the time, skill or inclination to paint the army, so I hired some amazing painters to do so.

The vehicles have been painted by Golden Demon winner Aaron Lovejoy and the figures have been painted by future Golden Demon winner Toby Wearing. They have both done a ton of work this past year and helped me build my Crimson Templars up to over 10,000 points. I integrated a Blood Angels successor army, the Templars Sanguine, in as well, which is currently about 5,000 points.  I have a back story for this chapter that I will be publishing soon as part of The Big Game.

On top of that I have my first army, Dark Angels (8,000 points) which I painted.  A Demonhunters army (5,000 points) painted by Aaron Lovejoy, and my favorite army, my Sisters of Battle (5,000 points), painted by Anne Forester back in 2001.  

Well, that is not totally true.  My new favorite army is Dave Taylor's legendary Legio Custodes army, which I won on eBay recently.  When I saw this army in White Dwarf years ago, I fell in love with it and the army is now proudly displayed at the Games Workshop Los Angeles Battle Bunker.  I can't tell you how excited I am to own this army.  It is not just amazingly beautiful, but a piece of 40K lore.

I also recently added 12,000 points of Imperial Guard due to my good friend Wayne Clark, who has one of the biggest IG armies in the US (he has about 750 guardsman just with lasguns!).

All these armies will have photos posted after the big game, as I have a photographer coming to photograph set up day (Friday) as well as game day (Saturday).

Well, that is enough for today.  I hope you now know who is wasting your time!

And remember, when all is said and done, we are basically boys playing with toy soldiers.


Alec