Richard is a multiple golden demon winner, including twice winning the much coveted “Slayer Sword”! Read on to see photos of all his winning works.
2024 – Silver Golden Demon Winner : Loonboss on Giant Cave Squig
2024 – Silver Golden Demon Winner : Loonboss on Giant Cave Squig
I really enjoyed painting this model and all the fun textures, colours and techniques involved in creating him! At the 2024 Golden Demon at Adepticon, Chicago, I was lucky enough to get a Silver Demon in the “Open” Competition.
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How to Paint the Loonboss on Giant Cave Squig – Golden Demon Silver Winner
The Squig needed a Knight, so here’s my shiny NMM fellow, with tips on the banner, woodgrain, NMM and more.
How to Paint the Giant Cave Squig – Silver Golden Demon Winner!
A really fun experience playing with colour and texture! These videos show I created this bright little fellow.
2019 – Gold Golden Demon Winner : Mortarion
2019 – Gold Golden Demon Winner : Mortarion
I began painting him when the model first came out, and only finished it just in time for the Crystal Brush. It was such a difficult model to paint due to the massive amount of details and the difficulty in holding it without rubbing the paint off! I’m so happy it’s finally done. I was awarded a Gold – Warhammer 40,000 Large Model – at Warhammer Fest 2019.
You can learn to paint Mortarion on this site, with my huge collection of tutorial videos.
2018 – Gold Golden Demon Winner : Rotigus
2018 – Gold Golden Demon Winner : Rotigus – Age of Sigmar Open Day
Entering the Warhammer Age of Sigmar Golden Demon was a new experience for me as I usually paint Warhammer 40,000 models for competition, especially models that feature plenty of opportunities for freehand. I’d missed the previous Golden Demon event for Warhammer Age of Sigmar, so I was very excited to see which models other people would enter. I’m a big fan of the Nurgle range and was immediately drawn to Rotigus, the new named Great Unclean One character. It features a bewildering amount of detail, so I knew it would be a challenge to paint.
Great Unclean One
A selection of videos on how I created some of the effects on my Great Unclean One including the horns, staff and friendly nurgling. With Nurgle-esque glows, rots, maggots and weathered copper details.
2018 – Gold Golden Demon Winner : Lord of Plagues
2018 – Gold Golden Demon Winner : Lord of Plagues
Age of Sigmar Open Day
To top my day off, I also received another gold trophy for my entry in the Unbound category! This was quite a shock, as it was an older Lord of Plagues model that I had painted and hadn’t originally been intended as a Golden Demon entry. Nurgle had indeed smiled on me!
Follow these links for PDF guides on his Non-Metallic Metal Armour and his Rusty Axe!
Or, click below for some videos I created for painting Maggotkin of Nurgle, which use the same techniques.
2017 – Silver Golden Demon Winner : Tzeentch Knight Lancer
Silver and Forgeworld Best In Show for 40,000 Vehicle at Warhammer Fest
2017 – Silver Golden Demon Winner : Tzeentch Knight Lancer Silver and Forgeworld Best In Show for 40,000 Vehicle at Warhammer Fest
Here are the photos of my finished knight lancer. After convincing myself that I wasn’t going to place in the Golden Demon, I was happy to win the Forge World Best in Show and the silver demon for vehicle behind the amazing Karol Rudyk. The quality of entries for this Golden Demon were the highest I have ever seen!
2017 – Vehicle Gold – Horus Heresy Weekender: Warhound Titan
2017 – Warhound Titan
Vehicle Gold – Horus Heresy Weekender
The reason I painted a Warhound was because I wanted to paint something big with lots of space for freehand artwork. I also have a passion for robots with large guns! The colour scheme is a by-product of me wanting to paint a moth on the model. The Legio Mortis has a more common name, the Death’s Heads, and there is a moth called the death’s-head moth, so it was a perfect fit for me
2016 – Vehicle Gold at the Warhammer 40,000 Open Day: Death Guard Deredeo Dreadnought
2016 – Vehicle Gold at the Warhammer 40,000 Open Day:
The Deredeo has never been regarded as the most attractive of dreadnoughts, with the chest section often being compared to a motorboat. This has resulted in it mainly being painted to a tabletop standard and used for its ability to shoot, unlike its cousin the Contemptor, which often features in Golden Demon competitions.
I’m a massive fan of mechs and the neglected Deredeo caught my eye, so I wanted to see if I could work with it and make it into something interesting.
2016 – Single Minature Bronze at the Warhammer 40,000 Open Day : Deathshroud Terminator
2016 – Single Minature Bronze at the Warhammer 40,000 Open Day : Deathshroud Terminator
2015 – Gold and Slayer Sword: Warhammer 40,000 Vehicle: Legion Fellblade
2015 – Legion Fellblade
Warhammer 40,000 Vehicle: Gold and Slayer Sword.
2015 – Gold Demon at Warhammer 40,000 Tanks: Legion Sicaran Battle Tanks
2015 – Legion Sicaran Battle Tanks
Tank Squadron, Gold Demon at Warhammer 40,000 Tanks
2014 – Gold, Slayer Sword and Forgeworld Best In Show Warhammer 40,000 Vehicle: Thanatar Siege Automata
2014 – Thanatar Siege Automata
Warhammer 40,000 Vehicle: Gold, Slayer Sword and Forgeworld Best In Show
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