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Odds and Ends - Conventions
DragonCon 2009
DragonCon 2009 -
Atlanta, GA - September 4 - 7, 2009 - Dark
Sword will be attending DragonCon with Larry
Elmore. Our first attendance there was 7 years ago when we had two Elmore
boxed sets and one limited edition mini (13 minis total), now we will be
attending with approx 250 miniatures from six different Dark Sword ranges.
So swing on by and say hi if you are going to attend.
This is one wild convention. The night life
is off the chain. The things one sees there...
Gen Con Indy 2009
The Gen Con Indy Tradeshow
- August 13 - 16, 2009 - Indianapolis,
IN (The Grandest gaming show of them all)
Gen
Con Indy 2009 Painting Competition - Dark
Sword Manufacturer Award
Ok, I will have 3 trophies made for 2008 Gen Con Indy
(1st - 3rd). They are crystal and will look really nice. You can see Marike
and Amy holding the trophies from a couple years ago by
clicking here. We will aim to have the same exact trophies every year.
We went for the perfect size of being able to be placed in a bookshelf
or a display case, but still being large enough to have some serious heft
to them. We are upping the ante this year for prizes once again.
1st place / Best in show for the best Dark Sword Miniature or Diorama
receives: - Handsome Crystal Trophy, $500.00 in cold cash and $500.00
in hot Dark Sword products.
2nd place receives: - Handsome Crystal Trophy, $100.00 cash and
$100.00 in product
3rd place receives: - Handsome Crystal Trophy, $100.00 in product
Please note - I may also personally
approach you about purchasing your winning entries for the Dark Sword
studio collection if you are open to parting with your winning entry.
This of course would be above and beyond the prizes listed above and below.
So you could make off with all sorts of cash and prizes when it is all
said and done folks.
Special George
R.R. Martin Masterworks Prize Support
In addition to great the prizes above, George wanted to incent people
to paint up Dark Sword figs from the George R.R. Martin Masterworks line.
So he is throwing some swag into the mix as well. The top 3 Dark Sword
entries with George R.R. Martin Masterworks miniatures in them will be
able to choose in descending order based on their placing in the competition
which of the following prizes they want. First place gets first choice
and so on...George twitches on well-painted miniatures just like I do.
Prize # 1 - A complete set of the DREAMSONGS audiobooks on CD,
all three volumes (this is 43 CDs with 52 hours of stories on them - Wow!)
Prize # 2 - Signed copies of the Green Ronin
RPGs of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE and WILD CARDS.
Prize # 3- Signed hardcovers of INSIDE STRAIGHT and BUSTED FLUSH,
the first two volumes of the "next generation" Wild Cards revival.
If you dig Super Heroes, you will love what George and his fellow authors
have done in their shared universe that has been around since the early
1980's.
All of these prizes will be personally signed by George R.R. Martin
as well.
Please note - that it may be possible to have
6 different Dark Sword winners as George's prizes will be given out seperate
from our standard prizes. This is
in addition to the general Gen Con Indy prizes and awards you could win
with your Dark Sword entries! So if your
Dark Sword GRRM mini took first place in the Gen Con competition and also
took first place for the Dark Sword Mfr award and the GRRM Award, you
could win three times for three prizes with the same miniature at the
same show. Talk about incentive to paint up a kick-ass Dark Sword
GRRM mini for Gen Con !
Gen
Con Indy 2004 Dark Sword Winner Pics
Gen
Con Indy 2005 Dark Sword Winning Pics
Gen
Con Indy 2007 Dark Sword Convention Pics
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Gen Con Indy 2006 Pictures
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As we learn more, we will update this page to let our fellow miniature fans
know where we will be. It is always a total blast to meet everyone and talk
miniatures.
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