{"id":3527,"date":"2009-06-07T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T15:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2017-09-22T20:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:46:30","slug":"some-more-cool-miniatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2009\/06\/07\/some-more-cool-miniatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Some More Cool Miniatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one from Jen Haley.  This is the Night&#8217;s Watch raven keeper figure from Dark Sword, but since I&#8217;ve already got several examples of him in NW black, I had her do this one as a Stark retainer.  Not quite how I picture Maester Luwin, but maybe his predecessor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0004rh7g\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240227\" width=\"205\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0004skqb\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/0004skqb\" width=\"166\" height=\"216\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is Jen&#8217;s take on Loras Tyrell, the Knight of Flowers, one of Tom Meier&#8217;s most spectacular sculpts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0004t09d\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240228\" width=\"192\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0004wape\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240229\" width=\"177\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jen is not the only painter I use (I no longer seem to have the time or energy to paint myself, but even when I did, I was nowhere in the class of the &#8220;hired brushes&#8221; I employ).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a piece by Matt Verzani, Dark Sword&#8217;s official house painter.  It&#8217;s the archer figure from the Night&#8217;s Watch, another great Tom Meier piece, but in this case we&#8217;ve painted him as Theon Greyjoy.  (We have an actual Theon figure coming, sculpted by Jeff Grace, and greens can be seen on the Dark Sword website, but that one hasn&#8217;t been released yet).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0004x3ze\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240230\" width=\"190\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0004y4zs\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240231\" width=\"181\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next we have another Verzani, this one his paint of Rattleshirt, the Lord o&#8217; Bones.  This time the sculpt is by Jeff Grace.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0004z585\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240232\" width=\"187\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another fine painter that I commission from time to time is Dave Gulczynski of WarPaint Miniatures.  Here&#8217;s his version of the lady of the court.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/00050a2y\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240233\" width=\"149\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally this one, Dave&#8217;s version of one of Jeff Grace&#8217;s wildling figures, the spearwife with the sword.  <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/00051kp4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240234\" width=\"296\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/00052y1r\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240235\" width=\"293\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots more, but that should hold you for now.  Enjoy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because. Here&#8217;s another one from Jen Haley. This is the Night&#8217;s Watch raven keeper figure from Dark Sword, but since I&#8217;ve already got several examples of him in NW black, I had her do this one as a Stark retainer. Not quite how I picture Maester Luwin, but maybe his predecessor. And here is [&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":[86,248],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527"}],"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=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}