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Golden Demon 2014 – Open Competition

Pictures of open competition entries at Golden Demon 2014

There were a few outstanding entires in the open competition which I didn’t manage to photo. Even thought there were less people at Golden Demon this year there were no less people crowding around the cabinets. All the open entires were good and deserve to be shown. As always there were some fantastic custom built creations and some off the wall entires.

Eldar Assassin - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Eldar Assassin – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

High Elf  - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

High Elf – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Imperial Psycher - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Imperial Psycher – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Imperial Pilot - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Imperial Pilot – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Inquisitor - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Inquisitor – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Ork Feebooter - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Ork Feebooter – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Ork Bust - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Ork Bust – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Imperial Titan Knight Conclave - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Imperial Titan Knight Conclave – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Goblin Rider - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Goblin Rider – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Space Wolves Contemptor Dreadnought - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Space Wolves Contemptor Dreadnought – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Space Wolf Wolf Guard  - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Space Wolf Wolf Guard – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Howling Banshee Exarch  - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Howling Banshee Exarch – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Skaven Clan Rats  - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Skaven Clan Rats – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Blood Angel Limited Edition Captain - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Blood Angel Limited Edition Captain – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Ratlin Sniper - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Ratlin Sniper – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

More to follow. Jon

Ben’s desk a year in review

Having given up on 40k and writing for ChapterMaster’s Ben has managed to kick out an amazing amount of Gaming standard models over the last year. Ben has this to say.

“This year has very much been a case of quantity over quality in my model painting. There have been a few reasons for this.

1)The ever increasing number of unpainted models in my collection.
2)The house I recently moved to having a lot less natural light reducing my ability to put finishing touches on models to certain times of day, when I’m in the office normally.
3)A general reduction in spare time due to work and famIly commitments.
4)Being disheartened by some of the releases this year, mainly codex causing me to abandon projects part way through such as my Tyranid, Grey Knight and now Blood Angels army.
5)My new airbrush. Which is good at covering models in paint but not so good for painting parts of models.

In many respects this has been the year of finishing the gaming table, which I’ve done both to inspire battle thirst and because I can paint buildings in poor lighting and while half asleep watching TV.

Space Wolves
2014 started out with Space Wolves, some of these Grey Hunters were technically painted in 2013 but I forget which. This intent was to complete a Great Company for Apocalypse however I’m yet to get any further than coating the dreadnought in frendress grey.

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The year also finished with Space Wolves as I tried to get my final remaining Rouge Trader Space Wolf painted, alas N’jal is no way need complete.

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These Thunderwolves are also far from complete, but are just about table ready.

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Tyranids
My long and troubled love affair with Tyranids ended this year as the studio failed to un break my hormaguant and geanstealers with a new codex for the last time, so I’ve moved to pastures Greener. In other word I quit using Tyraninds and started another attempt at an Ork Army. Before doing so I managed to finish base painting my Swamlord and got a Zoanthrope finished for what would have been my new Hive Fleet.

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Ultramarines
These Ultramarines were started during Christmas 2013, but it took me a few months to get to the last 3 marines. These were also my last plastic Tactical Squad for my 4th company.

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These devastator marines were painted for my last game of Apocalypse in order to add a few more heavy weapons to a devastator company. These are
Obviously a mix of old Rouge Trader power armour variants with Forge World Horus Heresy heavy weapons

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These veterans were from the very large box of metal marines in the cupboard. I’ve banned myself from ebay for my New Years resolution. We’ll see how many months I manage. These 3 models enabled me to field a full 10 man stearnguard squad.

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My final instalment of Ultramarines is Ureal Ventris and his command squad. While not quite finished, I’m very happy to field this unit.

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Imperial Knight
Time for the big guy. The long awaited model. Those that follow my blog will know I’ve been bugging the design team for an imperial knight since they did the BaneBlade. Again there is a lot still to be done to this model, but it’s fine for the table.

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Shortly after starting on the knight A friend and I discussed playing one of the 5th edition special missions with a mind field, so I finally and quickly knocked out these mines from the original planet strike release.

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Orks
As part of my drive to complete old models I had another go at the Black Reach set. This time I found the experience a lot more enjoyable, so there is hope I’ll finish of the job in 2015.

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Grey Knights
After picking up the last model needed to add a power armour Squad to my very small Grey Knight army, thanks Gaz. Unfortunately the new codex, which I understand had nothing wrong with it other than not being available in paperback, means continuing with my Grey Knights sits a long way down my priority list. So another project is on ice.

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Now to the buildings.

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And the good old moon scape

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Objective markers

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Emporer’s Children
The final work of the year was the Emperors Children and Hawk Lords.

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I’m not very keen on the Purple and Gold Emperors Children vehicles that I’ve seen. I also want to be able to use my Forgeworld tanks in all my marine armies so I’ve painter my Land Raider in codex grey an will be fitting changeable doors and extra armour.

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Eldar
This jet bike is not really mind but I quickly painted the helmet and nose for someone In December.

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Golden Demon 2014 Knight Entries

imperial Knights were always going to be a big feature of the 2014 Golden Demon competition. There where no less than 12 Knights entered into Golden Demon 2014. The big surprise it that none of the won Golden Demon trophies.

Let build up to those Imperil Knights and have a look at the Eldar Wraith Knights 1st.

Both Eldar entires were from the Saim Hann craft world. The first is sporting a bit of bling in the form of a Gold and Red paint job.
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The Second Wriath Knight has taken up the more traditional red and white craft world colours.

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After the Eldar came the Imperial Knights in ascending size order we have a knight that doesn’t come from any Knight House I know of, in fact it’s a very contemporary looking knight. If I’m not mistaken this is really a Black Templars contemptor dreadnought dressed up as a knight

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Next up we have three of Games Workshops’ Knight Errants.

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Next up is a Traitor Knight with some unusual weapons. I would guess there is an alliance to slanesh given the pink coloured armour.

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We finish up with a set of three different Forge World Knights, one of which has a full conclave of Knight Paladins and Knight Errants as a retinue.

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The Battle of Calth Pictures from Warhammer Fest 2014

The battle of Calth in pictures from Warhammer Fest 2014. The battle of Calth was the ultimate betrayal of the Emporer’s grand scheme. Friend turned on friend, battle brother on battle brother. The Word Bearers planed methodically to catch the Ultramarines off guard. Expecting assistance, instead the Ultramarines were out numbered at outgunned. whole Chapters of Ultramarines were wiped out before they knew what was happening. A small Ultramarine force mounted a resistance against unbeatable odds.

These pictures below were taken at Warhammer Fest 2014. This was by far the most popular display by Forgeworld and possibly the highlight of the event.

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Golden Demon 2014 at Warhammer Fest – Ben’s coolest Demons

These are Bens Pick for his favourite entires at Golden Demon. Rather than looking at painting quality Ben has been looking purely at the colour scheme and overall look. He did only had my pictures to go on, so sorry if I didn’t take a picture of your model; and after all Ben’s opinion won’t get you into White Dwarf.

Ultramarine jet bike - Golden Demon 2014

Ultramarine jet bike – Golden Demon 2014

Crimson Fist Spartan Assault Tank - Golden Demon 2014

Crimson Fist Spartan Assault Tank – Golden Demon 2014

Blood Angel Dreadnought  - Golden Demon 2014

Blood Angel Dreadnought – Golden Demon 2014

Greater Demon of Nurgle - Golden Demon 2014

Greater Demon of Nurgle – Golden Demon 2014

The Green Knight - Golden Demon 2014

The Green Knight – Golden Demon 2014

World Eater and Blood Angel Contemptor Dreadnoughts - Duel Golden Demon 2014

World Eater and Blood Angel Contemptor Dreadnoughts – Duel Golden Demon 2014

Skaven Clan Rat - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Skaven Clan Rat – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Knight Conclave - Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Knight Conclave – Open Competition Golden Demon 2014

Dark Angle Sergeant - 40k Single Miniature Golden Demon 2014

Dark Angle Chaplain by El Kaye – 40k Single Miniature Golden Demon 2014

 

Ork Warboss - 40k Monsteress Creature Golden Demon 2014

Ork Warboss – 40k Monsteress Creature Golden Demon 2014

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If you are wondering about the Red and Green stickers on the entry cards. The Green Sticker denote an entry which is being considered as a finalist and goes through to the next round. The red sticker is an entry which has been photographed and may therefore appear in Warhammer Visions, White Dwarf or on the Games Workshop website in White Dwarf daily.

While the number of entries was lower this year the quality was possible even higher.

I’ve seen some very negative feedback on other sites about Warahammer Fest and while the Games Workshop studio was totally out done by Forgeworld, I thoroughly enjoyed the whole event.
As Golden Demon isn’t running on the Saturday, Games Workshop management need to give some more thought to what takes pace in it’s void; If they run the same formate next year and expect people to attend both days, while I would have been happy to have a reason to do. It was also very disappointing the Studio didn’t bring along a couple of display boards from their impressive collection and a few more of their senior staff.
But those were the only down points and really not that big a deal. The venue was better, the space given to none sale activities was bigger, the lighting at Golden Demon was better, the parking was better, more content was provided. All in all it was a great day out and I can’t wait for next year to roll around.