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And with that another Gen Con has come and gone! Gen Con 2015 is in the books and what a time it was!

The best four days in gaming are now behind us–everyone is exhausted and half-hoarse (not to be confused with half-horse, I didn’t see any centaur cosplayers this year), but thoroughly satisfied. Today was a day to hit those last few booths I didn’t get a chance to stop by, do the last of my shopping for friends back home, do a little speed painting, and browse the art exhibits to find some nice art to hang on the walls of my hobby room.

As I mentioned yesterday I qualified for the finals of the Wyrd Miniatures speed painting competition; I didn’t end up placing in this final round, but I did get the new plastic alternate sculpt Kaeris out of the contest. The contest was a lot of fun to participate in as everyone involved was really cool. Many thanks go to my wonderfy wife for taking lots of photos of the proceedings of the speed painting finals. The organizers of the event try to distract the competitors throughout by talking to us, randomly singing (which many of us competitors joined in on), and making announcements like “10 minutes!!…      …     …You have used 10 minutes” to mess with us. And of course during the course of the competition Angel Giraldez, the painter whose airbrushing class I took yesterday, swung by to check out what was going on; I swear that’s really not intimidating at all, really…

I also got to demo some fun new games, picked up a nice belt for Ren Faire, and finally made it into the Fantasy Flight Games store to pick up a few X-Wing models for friends; having finally browsed the games booths to my heart’s content I found some really cool art prints.

As Sunday is the short day of Gen Con this gallery is a bit shorter than the previous days, so here’s a look at the adventures for the day:

Starting the day with some coffee. At this point it is the only thing keeping me going.

I was walking by and I thought this lady had dressed an infant up in cosplay, turns out it’s actually a disturbingly realistic doll.

It’s the last day of the Con and the initial door rush is still huge!

Posthuman from Mr. B Games. Sadly not available for purchase, but I will be pre-ordering it from my FLGS ASAP

Nevermore, a hand-drafting, magic wielding game where you get to turn your friends into ravens!

Wookie! The wookie noises he was making were spot on. Also, apparently he plays the cello dressed as a Wookie.

Hopefully these guys aren’t getting as slaughtered as we were last night…

My favorite master, Rasputina!

Wyrd raffle! Sadly I did not win anything.

The ritual sacrifice of the balloon monster!

Slaying the monster

Robo Rally done with Lego robots

Each of the robots had its own fun little movements.

Getting ready for some speed painting!

Oh no! What could this secret model be!?

It’s the limited edition, alternate sculpt Kaeris!

It begins!

Such concentration!

Apparently I look ridiculous when I am painting.

For some reason this photo reminds me of Da Vinci’s “Last Supper”

FInished!

Look at all of the Kaerises

All of the entries

My Kaeris. Not my best work and one of the wings was miscast, but not bad for one hour.

Yay fun!

This duo was one of my favorite cosplays of the convention.

Ending the trip like I began it: with a Jack & Coke on the plane (although this time I have some new reading material).

And here is the obligatory “Look at my haul” photo

I’m back home now and dead exhausted. Unfortunately for me it is back to reality and work tomorrow; hopefully I will have a  voice for work and won’t be struck down by the Con-Crud. I will be taking a couple of days to recover from Gen Con 2015, after which I will post a full post-mortem on the convention. I hope you enjoyed my posts here half as much as I enjoyed myself at the convention and that I inspired you to make the pilgrimage to Gen Con and take part in the best four days of gaming!

I wrap my adventures up at Guslado Goes to Gen Con 2015: Final Wrap Up

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