To Westeros with Captain Blood! 14 October, another hill tribesman (p66)

[Captain Blood]

Thanks both 

[HvM]

Those mercenaries are outstanding! Excellent conversions and colors! A really great inspiration.

They have me got thinking about continuing my Westeros project

Cheers,
Daniel

[LordOdo]

They have me got thinking about continuing my Westeros project

Do! You did great stuff!

[Captain Blood]

They have me got thinking about continuing my Westeros project

Hurray!

A return to Bear Island...

Long overdue 

[Hammers]

Hurray!

A return to Bear Island...

Long overdue 

Yes, that is a very nice choice of unit (and well executed)

[Blackwolf]

Wonderful!

[Captain Blood]

So, today I met George R R Martin.
This entailed queueing up for an hour in the p*ssing rain outside the Forbidden Planet megastore in London (seriously, I just happened to be passing when I saw the sign, and decided my next business meeting could wait) in order to get him to sign two copies of his 'Hedge Knight' graphic novella. Which I will be giving as prezzies to my younger son and another friend of mine - both serious GoT nuts.

Interesting thing that struck me - the great man looks far younger (and actually slimmer) in the flesh than he does on screen. So maybe he will survive to finish the 7 volumes after all
(I refrained from making this observation. Apparently the last person to ask him if he was going to live long enough to finish the cycle was greeted with a sharp 'fuck off').

Truthfully, ours was a short conversation:

GRRM: Hi.
Me: Good to meet you. Thanks (for signing) - I'm a big fan of your books.
GRRM: Great. Well, I hope you keep reading 'em.
Me: Well, I will if you keep writing them, haha.
GRRM: <wry smile>
PR lady: NEXT!

I would have loved to have chatted with him about the great modelling work so many people here are doing / have done, converting 28mm miniatures into figures portraying the world and characters sprung from his imagination. Sadly, there wasn't time in my allotted 8.3 seconds.

Otherwise I might also have suggested he goes and buys September's issue of 'Wargames Soldiers and Strategy' magazine, which will have (all being well) an article by yours truly, featuring lots of lovely new GoT plastic conversions and mash-ups - several of which I'm really quite pleased with
(And which will of course, appear in this thread in due course, allowing for a decent interval after publication of WS&S... )

Just sharing the love...

 

[Mason]

No fawning then, Richard?

Good man!
 


Seriously: I dare say that if you had met him outside of the PR circle he could well be very different.
He might even have told you to: 'Fuck off!'.
Now THAT would be one to tell the grandchildren.
 

[Dr DeAth]

Perhaps you could send him a copy of Wargames Soldiers and Strategy when it comes out - who knows, you may become buddies and you could land a part in the next series of GoT. Now that would be something to tell the grandchildren! 

[Sangennaru]

Perhaps you could send him a copy of Wargames Soldiers and Strategy when it comes out - who knows, you may become buddies and you could land a part in the next series of GoT. Now that would be something to tell the grandchildren! 

"and here, my beloved grandchildren, is where i've been dismembered, just after the eviration, but before the extermination of my family. I had a lot of fun, you know?"

[Vermis]

Feeling pretty jealous.

Fantasy in WSS though? 

you could land a part in the next series of GoT.

I remember the ads calling for extras for the second or third seasons, over here. I could've gone as Sam Tarly's body double...

[Licantropo]

Captain, your Works are awesome,

[OSHIROmodels]

Ooo, get you, hobnobbing with the famous 

I remember waiting in line with my wife to get Jonny Wilkinsons book signed (she's a bit of a fan), it was supposed to finish at seven but he stayed there till gone midnight as there were so many people. The first thing I said to him as he got up for the photo was 'Oh, you're smaller than I thought' 

To be fair, I am six foot five 

cheers

James

[Dr. The Viking]

I'll allot you 16.6 seconds to sell me on GoT when I tour yhe UK next. 

No, seriously. .. everbody seems to be talking about the series and I am completely in the dark about it. 

[pocoloco]

Can't wait for the pics of your new conversions. What a great thread, I had somehow completely missed this one.