Back from GenCon ...

[Frustrated Father]

Wow.

We had an excellent showing this year at GenCon and I want to thank everyone for stopping by, making your purchases and generally giving everyone working the booth a gigantic charge as we met everyone and got to talk about the new releases and some upcoming work we have in the making. It was a real hoot to meet everyone and put some faces and personalities to names as well as make many new friends.

We'll be releasing the Rotten Belles, four of the 'lovely' ladies which accompany Seamus the Mad Hatter, later this week after we are able to take an assessment of our stock and fill the many customer and retailer orders which have come in over this last week.

The other six miniatures which were pre-released at GenCon, the Ortega Gunslingers (Perdita, Francisco, Santiago, Nino and Papa Loco) as well as our remake of our first female miniature, Viktoria in her alter ego as the trench coat wearing, sawed off shotgun totting Bounty Hunter, will be released within 4-5 weeks, generally so as to allow our painters time to put some studio paint on them and also to allow us to have restock cast as we thought we had plenty but they managed to go at a rather astonishing rate.

We'll be doing some house cleaning here on the site here soon as well, consolidating and restructuring the forums (and making some additions!) as well as getting ready for our latest painting contests, two which will be making their appearances soon, the tried and true Wyrd Painting Contest: The Rotten Harvest as well as the relative newcomer to the site but full of spunk and vinegar, the Iron Painter! More on those in the near future, just get your brushes prepped.

Once again, I want to thank everyone that was able to make it to GenCon to meet us in person and for those of you that weren't able to, thank you for the many, many personal messages and e-mails that were received over this last week as well as the well wishes we received across the internet. If you've sent me a message or e-mail, please be patient and give me a day or so to recover from the trip and I'll respond in the order that I got them!

Regards,
Nathan Caroland
Wyrd Miniatures

[LavronYor]

Nathan, it was great to see you again, and meet your lovely wife. I can tell everyone, the belles were the belles of the ball... and Perdita, well.... it is great to see beautiful female minis..

I also got to meet the illustrious supervike in person with his pack mule brother...

what a great GenCon....

and lastly




iron

[Hinton]

Sorry I didn't get to see you there, Yor. I heard you were out and about, but I guess I just kept missing you (as well as missing others).

Unless, of course, you all were avoiding me. :thinking:

[Duende]

How can you mention new minis and not give the people something to drool over?

The Belles are over in the GenCon pics thread, but here are the Ortegas and the new Viktoria version:

Nino and Santiago
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Duende71/GenCon%202007/GC07-Ortegas3.jpg

Papa Loco and Perdita
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Duende71/GenCon%202007/GC07-Ortegas1.jpg

Santiago and Francisco
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Duende71/GenCon%202007/GC07-Ortegas2.jpg

New Viktoria:
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/Duende71/GenCon%202007/GC07-newViktoria.jpg

I think I got the right names with right minis...just let me know if I flubbed anything, Nathan!

:D

**EDIT** Fixed the names. Thanks, Cedric!

[green stuff]

A little mistake there Michelle between Papa Loco and Nino ;).

**EDIT** You're welcome Michelle ;).

[Larkin Vain]

Thanks for the update and the pictures. The models look great as usual. I can't wait to get them in my hands.

[Lordfishbane]

Can't wait to see them painted up ready for sale, nice work once again.

[redstripe]

I promised at Gencon to make a post, so here it is. It was great to meet the man behind the minis and I've already started to paint up the Mad Hatter and his Zombie Girlies. It was also great to see how excited you are about your new game project and I will be watching very intently for any news from that front.

See you, next year!

[Illustrange]

I promised at Gencon to make a post, so here it is. It was great to meet the man behind the minis and I've already started to paint up the Mad Hatter and his Zombie Girlies. It was also great to see how excited you are about your new game project and I will be watching very intently for any news from that front.

See you, next year!

offtopic : are you by any chance the person redstripe from anima tactics forum ? :)
I still dont understand how it is even remotely possible, but before I signed up I came to the site and was suddenly logged in as you O_o and it still puzzles me constantly how this could have been possible (and it worries me, because that would potentially mean someone could accidentaly log in my bank account or paypal ?)

ontopic : ahh, the mad hatter now has a teaparty :) (not in this pictures.) mad hatter plus tea party/rotten belles will be my group of choice for sure.

[Illustrange]

hmm something I noticed :
ortega group = 5 members
Madhatter's teaparty = 5 members (seamus and 4 rotten belles.)
Undertaker group = 5 members (Nicodem, mortimer and 3 samuraipunk zombies.)

is this coincedental ?

[Ritual]

5 in each? Well, I'll be damned... ain't that a funny coincidence! :rolleyes:

[Illustrange]

well it was more like, has it got anything to do with the rules each group being 5 miniatures (probably nixing the whole points system at the same time.) etc. :)

[EricJ]

wow, that is odd... ;)

[Illustrange]

got it :p

[redstripe]

[quote=Illustrange;31868]offtopic : are you by any chance the person redstripe from anima tactics forum ?[quote]

Yeah, that is probably my account. (It's probably just an issue with the anima tactics boards.)

[gael]

It's very cool to see the copies of the Ortega :D.
if you want, you can see a picture of all the member of the family here:
The Ortega (http://mandragoreminiatures.free.fr/photos/gang/gang1.JPG)

[Jubilee]

Great stuff at the booth this year, Nathan. As usual, you managed to get me to spend more than I meant to! :) Thanks for the extra kitty (and the ice witch). Can't wait until I can buy a horde of them (nudgenudge) :) :)

/ali

[Jester]

Nathan, great meeting you and Eric both in person. :) Looking forward to a lot of new stuff in the months ahead.

[Wren]

I'm glad to hear it was a great con for Wyrd. I did my part - I came to the con more flush than I usually manage, and was happy to part with more of it than I planned at the Wyrd booth. Part of which is a testament to how great the new releases are. Although I am probably one of the few people who isn't really into zombies, I liked the Belles. And Perdita is fantastic.

[Ritual]

How can someone NOT be into zombies? :hmmmm: I just can't get that into my head... :D

[Wren]

lol, I'm just a victim of weird tastes, there are plenty of minis I like that no one else seems to. Doesn't help me any with contests, I can tell you!

[Ritual]

It's a wonderful world where someone NOT into zombies is the weird one! :laugh:

[Wren]

Wonderful for you, now I'm weird in the real world and weird in the Wyrd one, there's no hope for me! ;->

[Duende]

Don't worry, Wren. I'm the same way. I'm a big RL weirdo and I also am not real keen about zombies... although I also like the Rotten Belles too.

:D

[Wren]

Sounds like it's hat's off to FF and the gang, then, for creating some zombies both zombie lovers and non zombie lovers can enjoy. :->

[LavronYor]

and to the painters that make them look so coooooool...

[Pirate Rackham]

nat, just wanted to say it was great to finally meet you..had several folks ask me about my way cool wyrd t-shirt..told them what booth to go to..Love my new Vic mini....:)

[Duende]

So why isn't your username "Pirate Wyrd" instead of "Pirate Rackham"?

Ah well... Ninjas are better anyway. :D

http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v115/92/43/513498240/n513498240_91984_570.jpg

;)

[Wren]

nat, just wanted to say it was great to finally meet you..had several folks ask me about my way cool wyrd t-shirt..told them what booth to go to..Love my new Vic mini....:)

People kept asking me if I worked for Wyrd now when they saw my T-shirt. Oh and Jeremie used the logo and image both as excellent colour use examples in one of the seminars I took with him.

[Thryth]

Hey, that's no fair! You left-out the pirate's attack parrot! There's no way that ninja is sneaking-up on him like that! ;)