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Elmore Dragons
Winner
Best Miniature Line of 2004
Origins Awards 2005
Caldwell Masterworks
Nominee
Best Miniature Line of 2005
Origins Awards 2006
Visions in Fantasy
Nominee
Best Miniature Line of 2005
Origins Awards 2006
Parkinson Masterworks
Nominee
Best Miniature Line of 2004
Origins Awards 2005
Elmore Masterworks
Nominee
Best Miniature Line of 2003
Origins Awards 2004
Useful Links
| The Web site of Larry Elmore. Larry Elmore is simply one of the best fantasy artists EVER. This Web site is phenominal thanks to the constant updating from Mr. Whitman. If you have not visited this Web site yet, you need to go check it out right now! | www.larryelmore.com |
| The Web site of Keith Parkinson. Keith is one of the greats in many arenas including game covers, video game covers, and of course many many book covers. Keith passed away in the fall of 2005 and will be missed by all... | www.keithparkinson.com |
| The Web site of Clyde Caldwell. Clyde really knows how to paint up those sexy women! Clyde is part of what I call: The Fab Four. The Fab four basically put TSR on the map with their outstanding artwork in the 80's and 90's for their game systems. Clyde has been on the list since day 1 when Dark Sword started up. But with all things, it is best to take it one step at a time with bringing new artists onboard as we want to be sure we do every line 110% perfect. This site just went through major revamp and it is outstanding! Check it out. | www.clydecaldwell.com |
| The Web site of Mr. Jeff Easley. Jeff is part of the Fab-Four and is excited about Dark Sword doing up some great miniatures based on his awesome artwork. Jeff is best known for his outstanding dragons and all those covers for the AD&D books that he did over the years. Jeff loves bad B-movies and signing shoeboxes full of Magic Cards at Conventions. They do not even have to be Magic Cards he did the art for as he is silly like that...He just loves signing stuff... | www.jeffeasley.com |
| The official Web site of George R.R. Martin - loads of excellent information from the man himself. You can also access George's LiveJournal via the "Not A Blog" link. | |
| The Web site of Tom Meier who is one of the greatest miniature sculptors ever. Without Tom pushing the envelope for the past 3 decades, miniatures would not be where they are today. Tom is one low-key dude who lets his sculpting do the talking for him. We are honored to work with Tom on the Parkinson Masterworks line. FYI - Tom has a new 30mm line of Elves and other goodies in full release at Thunderbolt Mountain! Be sure to check our their new Web site and get a sneak peak at their new GRRM figs! They are OUTSTANDING! | www.thunderboltmountain.com |
| The Web site of the very talented Mr. Dave Summers and his son Simon. Dave has been in the biz for many many years and is in my opinion one of the greatest Dragon sculptors ever. Dave is one of the nicest and approachable guys you will ever meet. And his wife Sue is starting to sling the putty as well. And I have to say that she is actually kind of scary with how good her first piece is. This could end up being like the Partridge Family except with Sculpting instead of music. I see a TV show in the works...they could walk the earth and get into adventures like Cane from Kung Fu. At the end of every show, you could see the finished piece that they worked on during the down-time of their adventure. You dig? | Dave & Simon Summers |
| The Web site of one of our top-notch staff painters. Matt Verzani is a multiple Golden Demon award winning painter that is out of this world! Check out his Web site if you want to get some cool ideas for painting miniatures. Matt also does painting work-for-hire, so if you need miniatures painted at Golden Demon levels, then check him out! You will be seeing his latest work right here on this Web site VERY soon.... | Matt Verzani |
| The Web site of Susan Wachowski our 2nd official staff painter. Susan is a dragon painting guru and very classy lady. She also heads up the Gen Con Paint n' Take's at both Gen Con Indy and Gen Con So Cal. Her husband Art is a 40K/Warmachine guru - a cool cat and good gamer. | Susan Wachowski |
| The Web site of our 3rd official staff painter - Alison Scheirman. Ali is our newest staff painter. She will be joining the talented brushes of Mr. Verzani and Susan Wachowski on our miniatures. Ali took home first place at Gen Con So Cal in the single mini contest with a great Dark Sword piece. She really digs our miniatures and she is a huge talent. Her flesh tones are brilliant. | Alison Scheirman |
| Marike Reimer has launched her own Web site showcasing her brilliant painting style. Check it out and enjoy the great minis on her site. She also has fun pics on the site as well. Marike has one Dark Sword Best in Show trophy to her name for her most excellent King Ploogak Miniature from the Gen Con Indy 2005 painting competition. Marike will be painting Dark Sword minis from time to time as well. | Marike Reimer |
| Amy Brehm has claimed two Dark Sword Best in Show trophies from Gen Con Indy (2004 & 2006). She is good friends with Marike Reimer who she studied miniature painting under. Check her site out. | Amy Brehm |
| Jen Haley is a multi-slayer sword winner and very well known painter all over the world. She just re-launched her Web site and is filming a DVD painting tutorial with MiniatureMentor.com on a Dark Sword piece. She is back in the painting swing of things and we are loving it! | Jen Haley |
| Zach is a multiple award winning painter that took 1st place in the 2009 Gen Con Single Miniature portion of the contest along with Dark Sword Best In Show Award. He is a class act and one talented painter. Be sure to check out Zach's Web Site for top-notch miniature carrying cases that painters can store their works in for transit to shows and such. I saw these in person this year and they were just too cool and built with long-lasting quality in mind. | Mr. Zach Lanier |
| Miniaturenland was started by a big fan of Dark Sword by the name of Ralph. He wanted to spread the word all over Germany about Dark Sword and our award-winning line of miniatures. So he started up a company and has been a major ally of Dark Sword ever since. For our friends in Germany, be sure to check out his site and order miniatures from them as they are local. They provide fast service! | www.Miniaturenland.com |
| This company is doing something all of the large miniature companies should have been doing years ago - put out painting tutorials on DVD! I checked out their first DVD tutorial and quickly contacted them to get Dark Sword into the mix for miniatures used in their tutorials. Our first DVD set is coming out in late 2008 with Jen Haley heading up the painting duties. Good stuff folks! | MiniatureMentor.com |
| Laszlo Jakusovszky has now thrown his painting skills into the ring with his own 3 DVD miniature painting tutorial with 8 hours of painting instruction. You can now sit down with Laszlo Jakusovszky whenever you please and take in 8 hours of detailed instruction on miniature painting from just getting started to honing your skills and moving to that next level, for the bargin price of $40.00 for a 3 DVD set. I am a big fan of resources like this and personally pick them all up for my collection. | www.Hot-Lead.org |
| The Miniatures Page Web site. This Web site is great for keeping up on the latest industry news. You gotta check this out! | www.theminiaturespage.com |
| If you want to see TONS of excellent painted miniatures and post your own for review, than this site is for you! You can spend hours looking at pics on this site and not even scratch the surface! Plus, they have boatloads of great painting articles and for that matter, articles on everything from taking pics of your minis to making cool bases for your minis. This site is perhaps one of the greatest things for minis ever. | www.coolminiornot.com |
| Our friends over in the U.K. have a site that is quite interesting. You have to check it out and spend a good hour or so digging around to really see all of the cool parts of this online community. Lots of very enthusiastic miniature fans frequent this page. Opinions are flying around everywhere on everything! Not for the faint of heart... | www.frothersunite.com |
| The Stuff of Legends Web site. This Web site rules if you need a reference for older miniatures such as Ral Partha and Grenadier. I love this Web site! | www.solegends.com |
| Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic is something every painter needs and cannot get enough of. No not that....hehe..What I am talking about is PAINTING TIPS and TRICKS! | www.paintingclinic.com |
| Great Web site that is the home of the famous Visions In Color Painting Contests. This Web site is alot of fun. | www.miniature-painting.net |
| Outstanding Web site with some fantastic pictures that will for sure fire you up! Check out the Lava Dragon. If is mind-boggling to say the least. | www.hot-lead.org |
| Interesting Web site that is both in German and English. Great pics of some classic figures from yesteryear. | www.theminiaturegallery.de |
| Another very interesting Web site from our friends across the world. Inge has some cool stuff posted up here and I would for sure recommend giving it a look. | www.jenova.dk |
| Noel Meyer is part of a Chicago based painting group that has really been pushing the painting envelope over the past few years. Jen, Anne, Susan and Noel all come from this group known as the IMMPS. You will see them at the Gen Con Paint and Take as they devote countless hours to the painting aspect of the miniatures hobby. Noel is a Demon Winner and her site has alot of great info on it. | http://skya.shadowdragon.net |
| Iron Wind Metals is a group of old Ral Partha employees who are now producing some of the older Ral Partha "Classic" miniatures. They are also coming out with new original figures as well. If you missed out on an older Ral Partha set go check em out and they may have it. | www.ironwindmetals.com |
| Reaper Miniatures is a company that has kept many gamers and miniature enthusiasts alive in recent years by providing them with a quality miniature fix since Grenadier and Ral Partha went the way of the dinasaurs. Reaper is run by fantastic people and they come out with tons of very groovy miniatures! They also have a pretty solid painter on staff now. Hmmm....I wonder what it would take to get her to paint up a set of Dark Sword Miniatures? Things that make you go hmmmmm....... Anyways be sure to check em out and see all the cool stuff! | www.reapermini.com |
| Kev and Sally White are good folks that run a very cool miniatures company called Hasslefree Miniatures. Lots of goodies and eye candy for everyone. Check it out and enjoy the minis. Kev also has an extreme appreciation of cult favorite movies such as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. If you dig these movies, you will dig their site. Lots of cool stuff folks... | www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/ |
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in presenting the many social, educational and entertainment advantages
of games. GAMA also presents the Origins Games Expo each year
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| Origins is one of the largest game conventions in North America, offering every form of game experience from board games, trading card games and roleplaying games, to live action games, historical games and miniatures. At Origins, there's something for every gamer. | www.originsgames.com |
| Gen Con is the grandfather of all gaming conventions. Need I say more? | www.gencon.com |
| The Source Games and Comics is one of the best Games & Miniatures stores that I have ever been to! They are located right here in our home state of Minnesota and they carry TONS of miniatures and of course every game imaginable. I can always get a fix for miniatures here. Their staff is top notch in terms of their knowledge and their willingness to help people find exactly what they are looking for. They also have a gigantic gaming area that is always buzzing with activity. This place is a real find if you are ever in the area! They also have a new Web site. Groovy stuff folks.... | www.sourcecomicsandgames.com |
| Ok,we saved one of the best for the very last link. If you have never read Knights of the Dinner Table, then you need to rush out to your local comic/hobby store and pick up the lastest issue or better yet pick up one of their early compilations. Every gamer worth their salt needs to read this HILARIOUS comic. If you visit the Kenzer & Company Web site you will be able to view the exclusive online Knights of the Dinner Table comic strips. Check em out and remember that if all else fails during a gaming session negotiation you can always: "Waste em with your crossbow!" | www.kenzerco.com |
| Please Contact Us and let us know of any other cool Web sites that would be usefuls links to miniature enthusiasts and gamers! We will review the Web site and post it to this section if it will be useful to our customers, fans and visitors. | |