{"id":2899,"date":"2010-08-15T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T12:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:01:39","slug":"cersei-conquers-gencon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2010\/08\/15\/cersei-conquers-gencon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cersei Conquers Gencon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gencon, the big summer gaming convention, has come and gone in Indianapolis.  I was not there myself, but Jim from Dark Sword has forwarded me some amazing pictures of Cersei from the painting competitions, and I couldn&#8217;t resist the urge to share them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000ct9kw\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240191\" width=\"202\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The figure, of course, is from Dark Sword Miniatures.  You can get your very own copy, and lots of other Ice &#038; Fire figures besides, from their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/darkswordminiatures.com\/\">http:\/\/darkswordminiatures.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000cwc8q\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240192\" width=\"183\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sculpt is from the incomparable Tom Meier.  You can see a lot more of Tom&#8217;s sculpts, and his own range of figures, at his Thunderbolt Mountain site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmountain.com\/\">http:\/\/www.thunderboltmountain.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000cxxeb\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240193\" width=\"166\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The painting is by the amazing Marike Reimer, of Destroyer Minis.  Check out some of her other paint jobs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destroyerminis.com\/\">http:\/\/www.destroyerminis.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her Cersei was the queen of the Gencon painting competition this year, winning 1st place in GenCon overall single mini, Dark Sword single mini, Ice &#038; Fire range 1st overall, and Dark Sword Best in Show.<\/p>\n<p>All, in my opinion, well deserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gencon, the big summer gaming convention, has come and gone in Indianapolis. I was not there myself, but Jim from Dark Sword has forwarded me some amazing pictures of Cersei from the painting competitions, and I couldn&#8217;t resist the urge to share them. The figure, of course, is from Dark Sword Miniatures. You can get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,86,248],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}