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Gen Con Indy 2012
The Gen Con Indy Tradeshow
- August 16 - 19, 2011 - Indianapolis, IN
(The Grandest gaming show of them all)
Gen Con Indy 2012
Painting Competition - Dark Sword Manufacturer Award
Dark Sword Miniatures is giving away over $2,000 in cash and prizes to celebrate our 10th Anniversary at Gen Con Indy and our continued support of the Gen Con Indy Painting Competition. Dark Sword will also have 5 trophies created for 2012 Gen Con Indy (1st - 5th places). These are the same sharp looking crystal trophies that we have been using since day one. We went for the perfect size for a bookshelf or a display case, but still large enough to have some serious heft to them. We are upping the ante this year for prize packages once again.
Dark Sword Miniatures Manufacturer Award
Please note - This covers all categories in the overall Gen Con painting competition and participants keep their miniatures
1st place Overall Dark Sword Best In Show receives: - Handsome Crystal Trophy, $500.00 in cold cash and $500.00 in hot Dark Sword Miniatures products.
2nd place receives: - Handsome Crystal Trophy, $200.00 cash and $300.00 in product
3rd place receives: - Handsome Crystal Trophy, $100.00 in cash and $200 in product
4th place receives: - Handsome Crystal Trophy, $50.00 in cash and $100 in product
5th place receives: - Handsome Crystal Trophy and $100 in product
Please note - Dark Sword 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 "Game of Thrones" Prize Support
In addition to great the prizes above, George R.R. Martin wanted to incent people to paint up Dark Sword figs from the George R.R. Martin Masterworks "Game of Thrones" 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 prize packages they want. First place gets first choice and so on...George loves well-painted miniatures just like I do. These entries could be dioramas to single miniatures - it does not matter on category - the coolest wins.
George R.R. Martin Sponsored Prize Packages (in no particular order):
Feast for Crows & A Dance with Dragons Unabridged CD sets - 64 compact discs in all with 80 hours in total of each book being read to you while you paint miniatures, drive or just take in an hour or so each day. Perfect for listening to while painting miniatures or building cool dioramas. $135 Retail Value
The Art of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire - Volume 1 & 2 - A couple of very nice large hard cover books from FFG that showcase some of the best artwork out there for George's A Song of Ice and Fire world. $60 Retail Value. Each book is also personaly autographed by the man himself.
Three Hard Cover Short Story Compilations all personally autographed by George R.R. Martin - Songs of Love and Death (All-Original Tales of Star Crossed Love), Songs of the Dying Earth (Stories in Honor of Jack Vance), and finally Down These Stange Streets (All-New Stories of Urban Fantasy). Some amazing short stories from some of the top authors in the world. $81.00 Retail Value.
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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.