Golden Demon is back and better than ever, with its return to Adepticon 2024, boasting a whopping 15 different categories!
One of the most renowned and prestigious mini-painting contests out there, the Golden Demon brings together painters of all backgrounds and skill levels to celebrate the hobby of Warhammer.
This upcoming Golden Demon for 2024 seeks to do the same but on a grander scale.
Golden Demon 2024 Returns To AdeptiCon In A Huge Way
The latest on Golden Demon returning to AdeptiCon 2024 is from Warhammer Community.
Taking place in the 2024 AdeptiCon towards the end of March, the Golden Demon competition will be rocking 15 different categories to work with.
This time around, Blood Bowl, Necromunda, and Horus Heresy fans will be excited to hear that they have their own categories to tough it out in.
In addition to their return, the main Warhammer channel on YouTube has dropped a video on the history of the Golden Demon, as well as some tips, tricks, and info about getting ready for the up and upcoming event!
Golden Demon Winner at AdeptiCon 2023!
If you went to AdeptiCon you might have seen this model in person, but if you missed the event, you can still drool over the fantastic paint job! There were so many amazing minis and quite the turnout at the event, so Neil really had to go above and beyond to win this year, and it’s just great to see the Golden Demon back again.
These top place images come from this Warhammer Community post, but keep scrolling to see tons of models from our event coverage.
This year’s champion is Neil Hollis, who painted a truly jaw-dropping version of Master Lazarus of the Dark Angels.
Look at those incredible blends on the armour and robes! The beautiful non-metallic metal on the trim and sword! Glory at the freehanded Dark Angels icon on the back of the cloak! Even the feathers on the helmet have been painstakingly painted one by one.
The blending on this is quite sublime, and with all the NMM (Non-Metal Metallics), it just looks amazing.
This is actually the SECOND Slayer Sword that Neil has won – after taking the top prize at the The Horus Heresy Weekender in 2017 for an iteration of the Iron Warriors Primarch Perturabo.
Speaking to Warhammer Community just moments after collecting his latest award, Neil said: “It’s like a dream, it doesn’t feel real.
“I didn’t feel like I had much of a chance. I thought I was hopefully going to get a trophy in the Single Miniature category, so that’s what I was putting my hopes into. It’s like a dream come true.”
Neil almost didn’t attend Adepticon this year, but was persuaded by friends to share their hotel – and it’s a good job he did!
Good thing he did show up, but if you spend this much time on a miniature, might as well show it off at the biggest event for Wargaming in the USA. Every little detail of this is just incredible and should give you plenty of inspiration for your own hobbying.
It’s only very slightly converted, so I changed the sword around and he’s based standing on a black and white marble base. It was quite a long project, I started it pre-Covid. It got 90% completed, and then Covid happened and I stopped painting. I only really started getting him finished again recently.
This Slayer Sword award is so cool and having this on your hobby shelf would be the envy of all. As we said, a ton of work went into this, and since he started before COVID, that means this was a multi-year project.
The AdeptiCon 2023 Golden Demon is Full of Amazing Minis!
Diroama by Osvaldo Garcia
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