GenCon Indy

[TheMasses]

So Dan (Brimshack) and I are at GenCon Indy. Wow what a big show. Its lots of fun but very tiring. So I have now idea why I’m trying to do a blog, but I am. :ahhhhh:
So check it out here (http://crunch-waffle.com/blog_food/).

[supervike]

That looks like a ton of fun! The blog is cool too!

[Valloa]

Cools. It's always fun to see peoples Con pics. Hope you guys do well sale wise there and have fun!

Maya~

[Brimshack]

Thanks guys, but could you please tell Andy to stop taking pictures of me. If he breaks that camera, we'll have no way of taking pictures when the next round of minis come in.

[Sergeant_Crunch]

Thanks for sharing! Glad to see Nathan found a suitable display case.

[Jubilee]

I'm having alot of fun, too! My feet hurt!

There's so much to see!!! So much to buy!! aaaaah.

/ali

[EricJ]

yeah, this thing has been a ton if fun so far, I'm sad I'm missing the last day of it. I'm taking a ton more photos and I'll make nathan write something up proper for the wyrd experience at gencon. You might not think it, but he really is quite a pushover in person ;)

[Ritual]

How are people's responses to the minis?

[Jubilee]

As far as minis go, I haven't found anything I haven't seen already on the internet, but did finally get a manorhouse mini I've wanted, but not enough to order. Two miniatures I painted are on the Dark Sword Miniatures Elmore #8 box, which makes it pretty awesome in MY opinion, anyway.. :)

The painting contest was pretty fierce. EricJ, did you not enter, or did you go for the privateer press contest?? I haven't seen the results of that yet.

The internet signal in my hotel sucks. :)

/ali

[EricJ]

reaction has been pretty damn good overall I've seen. A ton of people who seem to be just seeing wyrd for the first time at the booth and picking up quite a few minis, which seems promising. We've also been directing a ton of people to the forums, hopwfully some will show up here!

Everyone seems damn impressed by the painted mini display, just to pat ourselves on the back (Anders). I'm bias of course but our little display ranks up pretty high.

Anyway, judging by the fact Nathan is planning next year already, I'd have to guess he's pretty happy about it all, and sales are adding up well. So it seems there is hope for wyrd afterall!

Anyway, that's the current report from gencon!

[Ritual]

Good news! Thanks Eric! It's really nice to hear things went well considering the amount of preparation work (and costs) Nathan had with this. :)

[rodnik]

I had a great time and can't wait to try some of the paint stuff Eric and I discussed. Regardless, thanks to Nathan and Eric for putting up with my wife and me for the weekend--we both had loads of fun. We're already talking about next year-----
Kev

[Nathan Caroland]

Whew, I'm back. Packed up last night and got it packed with the help of Dan and Andy and made the 8.5 hour trip back with a slight detour to my mothers place in Kentucky and managed to make it into the house just before 4am this morning. Of course, the dog woke me up promptly at 9am to go out and I couldn't sleep. Grr.

The convention was a real eye opener is more than one way and I have to say that we came away from it with a lot of ideas, what works and what doesn't and I'm really looking forward to next year, as well as Origins as I've got some thoughts on what I would like to do at those places and how I would change some things up.

Show was profitable, quite a bit of sales, retailers and distributors showing a lot of interest as well as a load of folks who were introduced to us there for the first time. Met quite a few interesting folks and it was a real pleasure to meet so many of you in person, always lots of fun to put a face with a persona or name. We had a lot of fun with Kevin (Rodnik) and his wife this weekend as they treated us to a fantastic round of laughs every night over dinner and if all things work out, I'll be hunting those two to help with the booth next year if all goes well.

Overall, very pleased. Eric has a bunch of pictures which he'll share when he gets back from Vegas and in the mean time, if you've got anything to share over GenCon, pictures or thoughts, feel free to post them up!

Oh, and a very large welcome to all the new folks signing up on Wyrd, it was a blast and you are most welcome here.

[witchfire]

the dog woke me up promptly at 9am to go out and I couldn't sleep. Grr..

awww !!! the pour thing must've miss his master during the weekend

[EricJ]

I'm finally home now also (had a 3 day detour to Vegas ;) )

I haven't had a chance to look at the photos, I'll try to start uploading them this evening if I find time, I KNOW we have a few gems in there, can't wait to get a better look at them.

The show was great, a ton of fun. Meeting everyone was probably the highlight (since I didn't have to keep an eye on the money thing as much as nathan), although I hate to admit it, but it got to a point that it was a little bit of a blur for me, I really really hope I didn't accidentaly snub someone... :(

Kev and his wife were great, we had a ton of fun talking paint and more. I hope I was able to make a little sense.

The show was huge and fun, definately going to have to go back next year, Nathan and I even had thoughts to set up a painting table in the booth and do painting lessons there on wyrd minis, which would be good fun and hopefully keep the booth looking nice and busy! A ton of other ideas came up while we were there, I hope we can remember half of them. Lots of fun things for where wyrd is going from the sounds of it :)

[rodnik]

I hope I was able to make a little sense

Absolutely...suprisingly enough, I've been painting ever since I got home. I hope to have one to show you in the next few days. Not great, mind you, but just working on some of the stuff you and I discussed. I'm already surprised by the difference in the piece---

As far as next year---count me in to help, too----I loved hanging with you guys---I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

Marie's still considering the booth-babe thing.....she's already talkin' about increasing her workout intensity a bit....8)

[Nathan Caroland]

(laughing)

We did sort of push the whole idea of the corset on her didn't we. I think we can get her into it for next GenCon.

As for the pictures, yeah, there are some good ones in there and I'm eager to see what you come up with.

[EricJ]

Hah, yeah, Kev, dinners were a good time, now if only we could remember the funny things...

Glad to hear the paint tips help some, I've never really given lesons or even talked paint much in person, so I didn't know if my ramblings were of much use.

I'll just be happy next year to not have to booth babe again :(

[rodnik]

Well...we'll see if the tips helped any. The tips were awsome---now if I can only execute...
I'll force you to admire the mini when I finish it---which should be very soon....you can tear it apart, now that you're free "to take the gloves off"..8)


I'll just be happy next year to not have to booth babe again

Yea..I'll be glad of that too...not sure if I'll ever be able to get the picture of you in a chainmail bikini outta my head......now seeing Nathan in a chainmail bikini would be one for the books...

[cdukino]

Heck if you guys are gonna pay my gencon ticket and airfare I'm gonna wear a chainmail bikini ;) Hahaha... Good to hear you had fun.

[EricJ]

Heck if you guys are gonna pay my gencon ticket and airfare I'm gonna wear a chainmail bikini ;) Hahaha... Good to hear you had fun.


you know...tempting! ;)

[Wren]

I had a great time at GenCon, and one of the highlights was meeting the gang at the Wyrd/Crunch Waffle booth. Nathan is friendly and funny, Eric is much more approachable than I thought, Kevin is a hoot, and Dan and Andy are great guys too. I was glad to have the opportunity to pick up some great figures I've been eyeing from both sides of the booth, and they all ooh'ed a little over some painted figs I had brought quite convincingly. It was wonderful to see the fine paint jobs on the Wyrd studio minis close up. I hope both sides of the booth made buckets of cash, and look forward to seeing all the exciting ideas put into play for next year. Now if I could just figure out how to put together these imps I got before next year...

[Brimshack]

It was really great meeting everyone, especially all the people I have been doing business with and talking to for the last year and a half. We made a bunch of new contacts and arranged a few things for on down the road. Looks like the trip knocked Andy out though. I've hardly heard from him for 2 days.

P.S. I would happily contribute a portion of a plane ticket and a chain mail bikini in the event that a certain clog wearing putty-wrangler was to try and make a showing next year.

[Nathan Caroland]

Hrmmm, might have to work something out for GenCon for you Cindy. I know we've got Marie setup for the coreset and the female Mad Hatter (oooh, is that a miniature idea - yeah, you bet!) and I think we can work out some tantilizing chainmail links. Hrmmm, Janet Jackson comes to mind for some reason ..

(running ...)

Wren and her husband were good sports at the booth as I started a conversation, left off to take care of a customer and then came back to them again. Lots of fun there. As for those Imps Rhonda - heh, yeah, they are a bit of work to put together. I'll shoot you some pictures of the greens to help you out there. Might make a few changes to them to make things easier in the next mold for them as they are a touch of work.

For myself, Monday was a haze, Tuesday was running around and getting frustrated at 50% awake level and I figure today I'm somewhere around 70% recovered. Maybe by Friday I'll be able to think proper.

[TheMasses]

I'm alive :damnit::cussing: OK so I was a little tired, but I'm up and moving (albeit slowly) today.

Nathan, I just wanted to say you’re a hoot, but you need to come out of your shell.

Btw I finally finished the last installment of the blog and posted it a few minutes ago.

For those that are interested. (http://crunch-waffle.com/blog_food/)

[Brimshack]

He IS alive

[EricJ]

Eric is much more approachable than I thought.

HAH, yeah, at dinner with Kev and Nathan seemed to keep mentioning that they were having a hard time believing that I was really that complete ass they knew from online ;)

I tried to play up the ego, I really tried hard! ;)

[Wren]

Wren and her husband were good sports at the booth as I started a conversation, left off to take care of a customer and then came back to them again. Lots of fun there.

Hm... I'm not sure if you're omitting some of the story to make yourself look worse, or because it's top secret or something. ;-> The customers in question were industry bigwigs, whereas I am not so much, so I completely understood.


As for those Imps Rhonda - heh, yeah, they are a bit of work to put together. I'll shoot you some pictures of the greens to help you out there. Might make a few changes to them to make things easier in the next mold for them as they are a touch of work.

That'd be super helpful. I think I've figured out what goes with who, but it'd be nice to double check and verify orientation and whatnot.


they were having a hard time believing that I was really that complete ass they knew from online

Hey, I didn't say you were an ass. I just thought you might be kind of aloof up there on your godly painter perch, and you're not. ;->

[Machines Are Us]

Hey guys, thought I would chime in to say I had a great time meeting both Nathan and Eric at GenCon. Glad that everything worked out well for you guys and that you are already planning next year. \m/

The new minis are LOADS of fun...(thankfully I got that second pack of Imps). After flashing them off to the guys at the LGS they are kicking themselves for not sending more money with me. =) The spiffy new packaging looks great as well.

Thanks again for everything Nathan. The guys picked up their Viktorias tonight...and were quite eager to start on them.

Cheers,
~Jason

[EricJ]

Hahaha, it was hard to pretend I was on a godly painter perch when nathan had me painting using a crappy folding chair, and 2 boxes stacked on top of one another.

Oh, just a first photo, here is nathan and our booth!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/EricJ/Gencon/Booth-1.jpg

[Skya]

Hey, I didn't say you were an ass. I just thought you might be kind of aloof up there on your godly painter perch, and you're not. ;->


Oooo, there's a painters perch? I want one! I want one!

[rodnik]

HAH, yeah, at dinner with Kev and Nathan seemed to keep mentioning that they were having a hard time believing that I was really that complete ass they knew from online

E., don't sell yourself short---

I've *never* had a hard time believing you were an ass...:)

[Ritual]

More photos, please! :D

[EricJ]

well, here was the "aces" painting competition, 1 hour speed paint (I Believe in the photo you can see (sorry for misspellings) in order: Me, Rich Stedman, Marike, Derrik Schubert, Amy Brehm, Zach Lanier, Sue W.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/EricJ/Gencon/aces-1.jpg

Here is me with a funny expression on my face talking with Jen Haley

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/EricJ/Gencon/meeting-1.jpg

Notice how me, being an "important" painter, am working really hard to ignore Nathan and Kev the whole time ;)

more photos to come, I'm slowly picking out the good ones when I find a moment when not dealing with this giant pile of work waiting for me when I got home.

[Wren]

Oooo, there's a painters perch? I want one! I want one!

I'm hoping to work my way up to a painter's lazy boy or something some day, a perch sounds uncomfortable.

[vincegamer]

Wow. I've never met Jen Haley and I doubted you, since my memory of her image was the 2002 GD photo. She's lost a LOT of weight since then.
Must be her though, since looking at the 2003 and 2004 GD photos she was getting progressively smaller.

[EricJ]

One more photo, Nathan don't kill me


this is what I got when I told nathan I just traded about $75 of wyrd stuff for goodies for myself from another booth. Free stuff for me!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/EricJ/Gencon/customer-service.jpg

[Nathan Caroland]

Ah yes ... I remember that moment distinctly. That is my 'customer service' moment there.

Speaking of, got a rather good review from the convention I feel: http://www.displacedminiatures.com/gencon/wyrd.htm

[Ritual]

Cool review/interview! The author of that seems to have great taste in miniature painting! :D

[EricJ]

nice interview, pretty darn good review. And always nice to hear nice things about the paint jobs at the show ;)

[wiccanpony]

A southern accent and witch minis coming out!!!! be still my beating heart :)

[EricJ]

oh yeah, Nathan has a real "cute" accent

Between him and Kev, and a few drinks, it nearly stopped being english ;)

[wiccanpony]

oh yeah, Nathan has a real "cute" accent

Between him and Kev, and a few drinks, it nearly stopped being english ;)



:laugh: slipped right into "redneck babble" did it......

[EricJ]

oh yeah, I think I understood all the words (I think), just never heard them put into that order before

[Wren]

lol, love the picture. Good one Eric!

[green stuff]

Concerning the interview, I think there's a little typo on the name of CP (is Nathans accent that heavy ;)?). But otherwise, great press ;).

[Nathan Caroland]

Yeah I read that but no worries, and more to the point, I do sound like a hillbilly in the interview but ...

:p:

[EricJ]

Nathan, you sound like a hillbilly all the time! Why should the interview be different ;)

[wiccanpony]

Nathan may sound like a hillbilly, be he's a Southern Gentleman all the way!...... :)


I on the other hand, have no accent....Dude ;D

[EricJ]

yeah, me either, except I have the northern california bad habbit of using the word "hella"

[Nathan Caroland]

or 'rough' ...