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

[Dr. Zombie]

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. 

I keep telling you GOT is the new black. We need to get on this bandwagon.
I mean, just look at the cool miniatures in this thread.

[Captain Blood]

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

The TV series is quite good. The books are brilliant. I'd recommend reading the books, then watching the series.

No fawning then, Richard?
Good man!

There was no time for fawning, otherwise I do assure you I'd have fawned like a good 'un 

[Centaur_Seducer]

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. 

Or, choose the other path of doing stuff from Steven Erikson. It will after all, be fairly impossible since he doesn't describe that much...
The books, from both authors, are greath though

[Hammers]

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!

Hahahahaha! Isn't it funny how one with a fools stubbornness keep saying these things even though one knows they are moronic.

I did a similar thing on Samos this summer, anp pardon the anecdote:

I was out on a late night run on the pier of Pythagorea and ran in to one of the tour skipper Ioannis who has two goat kids hing. I asked him if I could take a selfie with myself and and the little kids. Replied the skipper, crossly: "Ask the goat!" and then moved off to a diot free part of the pier.. I did not ask said goats but as I tried to capture it with my IPhone it turned its rear my way and shat and then merrily skipped away in the direction of the skipper. So that was an unusual picture to post on FB.

[Elk101]

The TV series is quite good. The books are brilliant. I'd recommend reading the books, then watching the series.

I gave up on the books after the first three,  I just found them too miserable. I know GRRM has an issue with the "happy ever after" content of many books, etc. and I'd agree with that, but I sometimes find he goes so far the other way the results are equally predictable. "ooh, I like that character, best not to get too attached before they're brutally killed".

Having said that I think he creates brilliant characters and environments, something that lacks in so many stories. I would also definitely have taken the opportunity to meet him!

[Dr. Zombie]

My only issue with the books is that you can really tell they are written by a fat man. He is always describing in detail what they eat - and they do eat and drink a lot. I am currently listening to the audiobooks while commuting to and from work and I always seem to arrive hungry for some roasted lamb, suckling pig, applepie or lemon squares...

[Captain Blood]

Yeah, the first three books are definitely the best. Volumes 4 and 5 become a bit of a slog. Too many hares running, and all off in different directions with too little resolution in sight. Still, that means the last two books should be INCREDIBLY satisfying  

I did not ask said goats but as I tried to capture it with my IPhone it turned its rear my way and shat and then merrily skipped away in the direction of the skipper. So that was an unusual picture to post on FB.

Classic.
Never act with children or animals...

[Too Bo Coo]

I just read an article about Martin on my way back from Copenhagen and he said that if he could clap his hands and make all the cell phones disappear, he would. He did not seem happy about some aspects of his fame.  Living in NYC for a little while, I would often see celebrities in very mundane circumstances, and really try to avoid them.  Just feels so canned to say, "I just love your work!" even if it's true.  That said, Mr Gygax was MORE than patient with me being 'star struck' as he autographed all 11 books I brought to a gaming convention...    I'm not sure if I could have let Martin pass by either....

[Captain Blood]

And finally, I can post some updates to this thread...  

A while ago, I built and painted a number of new GoT figures for an article for WS&S magazine.
This finally hit the newsstands last week. If you want to read the full article, you'll have to buy the mag, but I promised Guy, the editor, I wouldn't show the piccies before he published. But since he didn't use most of the pics I shot anyway, I'm sure he won't mind me sharing them over the next few days. So keep checking back for updates

First up, across the Narrow Seas, the nomadic horse tribes of the Dothraki.
My Dothraki bloodrider is made from a head and shield from the Fireforge steppe warrior set, a bare-chested Warlord Celt body and GB Saxon legs. His distinctive curved ‘arakh’, is bodged from a FF steppe warrior scimitar.

[Elk101]

There were some tremendous conversions on show in the WSS article. I bought it especially!

[Sangennaru]

that's a smart collage of models, i really like it!

[Dr DeAth]

Read the article and enjoyed it - now looking forward to the flood of wargames porn that you're about to share with everyone

[fred]

I read the article in WSS this week - and now have found this thread with even more goodness in it.

I really must try some conversions on the next batch of plastics I assemble.

[Mason]

Glorious paintwork on that fella.
 

Did you also do the paintwork on the torsos of the cast of 300?
 

[OSHIROmodels]

Lovely 

I also enjoyed the article but though it was a bit picture-light 

We'll see them here though 

cheers

James