How to compete in the Golden Demons, gaming’s prestigious art contest

Every year where I go AdaptcinEvery year, in the United States Midwest, the Premier Wargaming Convention is hosted, I think about entering the Golden Devils in North America. Operated by the sports workshop, makers War Hammer 40,000For, for, for,. Warhamar: Age of SigmarAnd many other famous lines of Manature War Games, it is one of the world’s most famous hobby painting competitions. It is too Completely free to enter.

The fact of this matter is that literally anyone can do its best to show in the matter of display in Wisconsin, Wisconsin. There your job will sit for the work of other fans as well as the exhibition, but also professional painters and famous YouTubers, who all compete for the same prestigious trophies. So what is needed to create a winner entry? How is a small painting hobby getting ready? And what are the tools, titles and techniques that are affecting the community?

The purpose of our full look at this year’s entries is to play a role in ending the planning process for the Golden Devils, and hopefully provide a little inspiration for your first entry. Here is some of the best artists in the world, with some excellent ideas for your next project, and there are good ideas of boys and cheeks at the local hobby shop.

Note that we have tried our best to identify artists and their work on the basis of their work The results published by the sports workshop. However, the company refused to distribute detailed information about entries with multilateral areas, citing confidential concerns.

Each year Games Workshop gives the best show artist The Slower Swords award, a real sharp steel blade that they have to lift on their head In a celebration. Was the winner of this year Borja Kalu Bertran de LysA professional manager painter and painting instructor. Its entry, based on a Sesame The figure is called Ayardan witnessesAbsolutely amazing. It also has some features that were common in many high -performing entries.

For example, the small head was turned down and dramatic in a dramatic way. It features a wide -ranging base, including the effects of water and ice. We will come to them later, but what I want to identify here is how many different textures were produced in this piece thanks to this novel – wings, steel, happiness, wood, stone, smoke and more. It is a master class of the use of paints to create more different effects, but also connects the so -called “Golden Angle” where they look small. Subsequently, it was fulfilled by a professional painting instructor.

“Statistics captivated me from the beginning because of its presence and diversity of substances, which would allow me to test all my abilities,” Brutant de Les told Polygon in an email. “I read the background of this character: A storm cast eternal, which has been recovered so often that his personality ends. I have decided that the audience should observe this change – the demise of the seasons, the sunset, the melting by the aerix.

He added, “Some details, such as leather, jewelry, or axes, are consistent with closely observing.” “In particular, the feathers were a quite challenge that experienced my ability to maintain my long -term. On the other hand, the metals had to resonate with a good standard. For the same region, it was not too big to express the change in the seasons below the royal data.”

This year many other pieces include rich and diverse textures, including stained meat, hair, leather and even water.

June “Nanjan”, who won his second trophy in the hottest figure this year, won his second trophy in the category of big data, based on a lot of different textures based on his piece. Sesame Known as the scan model Visit Scoresar. You can find out more about the process – which includes installing LED lighting at the base. Its YouTube channel.

Another repeated theme in texture this year? Wings, with many membranes that are decorated with an excellent flag. Take a look at some of the best textures we get in the galleries below this year.

This year, the bright colors were all anger, which included pistol purple and pin, especially in matters, especially with coffee light, which was much easier on the eyes than in previous years. Painting these bright colors can be difficult, but the results speak themselves.

Weathering – Applying age and use of SC scuffs, dinges and dirt on model – is a technique that old manures painted.

In fact, perfection by Scale Modellers, this technique has been a part of fighters for decades, and the Putter Games Workshop Community is not a stranger to it.

In this year’s golden devils, all kinds of seasonal techniques were in the exhibition. The models in which we have seen include the effects of paint chiping, Edge Weathering, and Ring. Yet more entries are bent in the use of pigment powder, which can imitate dust and dirt shape.

Of course, the oils are dirty. They can challenge handling, so if you are trying to create a model, this is not always the best solution. But for such formal decisive competitions, standing by the crowd is the only thing.

Although a lot of entries were single or the single small small small small small small small small small small small small, small, the other was almost one inch long, the other was large. Some, like the bipodel night mecha in the pictures below, stand on a feet long. Painting large data often requires different tools, such as airbrush, as well as different skills, such as brass bars for stability, pinning weapons, legs and tourseas. Often, as in the case of this year’s award -winning ark theme, through the Dan Growthi, these models are painted like a separate module before the critical assembly process.

Yet the other entries were smaller than an inch. I Lashkar Imperialis Category 6 mm scale small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small back small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small back small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small to small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small to small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small small asordes. Small categories. This means that individual soldiers appear in the bottom pictures and close to the size of the rice. It is enough to say that it takes a stable hand to achieve the results that appear here, but also know how to use the material based on your basis that increases the sense of scale.

Some of my favorite pieces from the Golden Devils look like they have been drawn directly from the pages of Lore’s books, and this year there was no exception. In subordinates, from real stones and wood to foam and clean resin, all kinds of materials were used, all of which were trying to create reliable scenes. Free hand work on some of these background panels was also impressive.

Some of the best entries are actually wide and visualized, though a very specific and acquaintance is told to the audience. This year my favorite jokes entry was actually the most technically capable, which was marketed in a wide stand -up arcade machine Arx, which once again, uses these tinny. Lashkar Imperialis Statistics Best Effect.

The Games Workshop invites painters to present the entire squad of toy soldiers, which is a method of offer that reinforces the gameplay directly. When you have painted, if you don’t win anything, at least you have small sets to start the army. Just make sure that after the high -touch set, things come out a little faster to paint things. These were just some squads that stood this year.

More than anything, it is important to remember that Wargaming – like all tabletop gaming – is a form of storytelling. Fortunately, when it comes to sports workshop franchises, thanks to a part of the Black Library, there is a lot of story to choose.

But your requests should tell a story in front of the Golden Devils. Consider every figure, inclined towards each head, and even the scene line for individual models. All those elements work together to help some entries stand in addition to others.

My favorite example of this year is to submit the Ivan Book award-winning, which created the titan of chaos-once again Lashkar Imperialis Scale – It is enough to bring the hammer to a soldier so brave enough to stand with him. Like many other award -winning people, this article collects all the ideas mentioned so far, including all excellent implementation on the basic principles of fine basing, various textures, and painting.

For more models we hold, make sure to scroll through sliding galleries below.