The Big Game - Crimson Templars, Part II

 

More photos of the Crimson Templars as they March on Memphis!

The Big Game - Crimson Templars

The Games Workshop Memphis Battle Bunker had one amazing table of Cityfight terrain.  And I just had to use it to take some photos of my Crimson Templar army.   

Mk I Land Raider conversion - Part I

Tom McBride hits another home run with this conversion of a Mk II Land Raider he did for me.  We originally thought of it as a Mk IB, with the Pre-Heresy Land Raider kit from Forgeworld as the Mk I C and the original Land Raider from Rogue Trader days as the Mk I.  

But now there is a bit of Forgeworld ret-con going on with the release of their Proteus Land Raider.  They have now named the Pre-Heresy Land Raider the Mk IIB which makes no sense and they have elimintaed the words "pre-Heresy".  It is clearly the forerunner of the Mk II and calling it a Mk IIB means it was produced AFTER the Mk II. 

So I will think of Tom's as the Mk 1.5, occupying a spot between the Land Raider Proteus (Mk I) and the Mk IIB.  

Whatever the case, here it is in the colors of my Crimson Templars.

The first of these was painted by the talented Jim Wappel:

Land Raider Promethus Conversion

I happen to be one of a minority who loves the old Mk I Land Raider.  And so when I got a couple of these kits I wanted to figure a way to work it into my Crimson Templar army.  So I decided to make one into a Land Raider Prometheus.  This would be the ancient HQ Land Raider of my army.  A Land Raider since the days of Heresy that has been leading the Crimson Templars through thousands of campaigns.

I converted the Mark I by basically stripping out the center of the model and keeping only the bottom.  The Forge World kit provides two  pieces for the center hull.  below these I put a Black Templar Land Raider door from the Black Templar conversion box set.  I had to set that on a piece of plasticard since it wouldn't fill the gap between the front FW piece and the bottom.

Then I built up the back.  Here I used a Mk II Land Raider engine section.  Between that and the rear FW piece in the back I put a piece of Plasticard on which I glued a two piece crew hatch and a radar dish.

Finally, Mk II Land Raider sponsons fit perfectly on the Mk I Land Raider.  So the Heavy Bolter sponson went on and then the whole beauty was sent to Aaron Lovejoy, Golden Daemon winning painter, who has painted every vehicle in my army.  

Alec

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