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Full Review of the Results at Golden Demon 2025 in Essen! 🏆✨
In this video, we dive deep into every Golden Demon-winning entry from Essen 2025, breaking down the best Warhammer miniatures, painting techniques, and creative conversions that took home the most coveted trophies in the hobby! From jaw-dropping Warhammer 40k centerpieces to stunning Age of Sigmar dioramas, we’ll explore what made each model stand out — and what lessons painters can take from these masters of the craft.
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Full showcase of Golden Demon 2025 winners 🖌️
Expert breakdowns of painting styles, color theory, and basing
Insights into judging trends and category highlights
Discussion of standout entries from 40k, AoS, and Specialist Games
Tips and inspiration for your own competition-level painting
Whether you’re a seasoned miniature painter or just here for the incredible artistry, this is your complete look at the Golden Demon 2025 Essen results — all the winners, all the details, all in one video.
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Games Workshop Article: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/n4tadgwz/golden-demon-2025-winners-at-spiel-essen-revealed/
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It's become like a tradition to wait for your videos after the Golden Demon, always nice to listen your knowledge and experience about the contest and your opinion of winners and those that didnt get it. I hope you find time to go again and participate 😉
Thanks Trovarion. We appreciate your continued coverage of GD and honest, insightful takes.
Hopefully one day we'll see you enter again (assuming you aren't blacklisted 😉)
"and now my eyes are bleeding" oh boy dude… sometimes you wonder who the hell works at GW ^^
I just love that a mini diorama won. It has been a long time since a diorama won a Slayer Sword.🫣
here a concept that is not present in 80-90 % of the minis NO WEATHERING …no dust no mud ,runing barefoot in forest keeps you clean …WOLFS ARE KNOWN FOR BEING CLEAN ANIMALS , they lick they balls alot ( the damn nurgels are f clean like shiny ) …at one point there was an ogre who is known for takeing a shower every day …..and second , coz we talk about ogre …… is no kg pushing on the groud is like flowting on air ……they are horses walking in swamp 3 mm over the mud copletly shiny armor , that giant titan walker is like flowting over next to marines no,t that is one million + tone or armor …. but ya i see this coming from airplane /tanks modeling where even the airplane tyers get flat or TANKS let marks on the groud where they pass …you know they are heavy …..but am assuming am talking like this becouse am jeouls and bitter coz i dont know to paint like that :))) and i can cover stuff with some mud and call it weathering PS thank you for video ( and videos ) i love to wach your videos becouse you have a way to explain that conects ( am sick of explosion, drama or other shit , i like listening to you when i paint and dont get scared to paint eyes :)))) ……………and i dont think the kids section paint was made by kids ….simply dont belive …i see the hands of more xp ppl in there ( years of xp , YEARS )
The Green Knight got commended award, not ‘disqualified’.
The winner has great painting of course, but the architecture looks a bit wonky – why is the magister storing his stuff on a knee-height table next to his raised platform? Is he going to sit on the step when he's using the quill? And the far end of the cabinet is quite high up from the ground, probably above head level for a hunched guy like this. Maybe that's why he put the table in front of it, so he can step on it to reach his telescope thingy.
This well deserved gold golden deffkilla wartrike standing in his original base is absolutely gorgeous
Im obviously not a pro painter so please dont come at me. But I personally didnt enjoy the piece that won the slayer sword. The green upon green upon green upon green just looks out of place to me. There were so many that you featured that I liked much more.
But as I said thats just me 😅