Atlanta Gamesday Golden Demon Competition

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:56 pm

No blood bowl stuff but some beautiful models

http://gamesday.us.games-workshop.com/G ... inners.htm

I thought this diorama was cool:

http://gamesday.us.games-workshop.com/G ... -3rd-c.gif

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:43 pm

There's a few nice pieces but only a few real standouts. I wonder if there's just not a lot of competition at this event.

Sallacious · Post by **Sallacious** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:51 pm

Wow... those are some fantastic paint jobs!!

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:18 am

snotsngrots wrote:There's a few nice pieces but only a few real standouts. I wonder if there's just not a lot of competition at this event.

Definitely nothing lilke the quality I saw at the Toronto GD last year. But some nice stuff nonetheless.

Emberbreeze · Post by **Emberbreeze** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:54 am

snotsngrots wrote:There's a few nice pieces but only a few real standouts. I wonder if there's just not a lot of competition at this event.

that's what I thought. some great painting, some not really GD winning though

Gandhi · Post by **Gandhi** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:54 am

Really quite a wide range of painting standards... Just compare the Lichemaster (WHFB 3rr) to Sauron (LoTR 3rd). One painter who can do lightning, one who can't.... Some Modells even look unfinished. BUT there are several killers (like the Lichemaster)

I always thought GD-winners are far above my skills, but some models bring me to thoughts like 'i could have done better...'. That doesn't mean, I dislike them, it just shows, that standards are highly different from competition to competition (since i KNOW, that i'd stand no chance at the GD-Germany

)

BTW...who else has a strange feeling about painting comps on LoTR-Miniatures? Somehow it just goes like 'yep...looks like in that movie..' for me. The paintjobs ARE cool but the painters just don't get to paint a LoTR-Mini like any other mini since they will always be compared to the 'real things' there's not much space left to let painters do like they maybe want IMHO (....well I know...somehow quite strange...)

Djengis_Khan · Post by **Djengis_Khan** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:59 pm

some nice work, but only a few painters ! someguys won 3 times 1st and also 3rd place ! not cool, I think It''l be better if you could only have 1 entry

Djengis

JaM · Post by **JaM** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:27 pm

BTW...who else has a strange feeling about painting comps on LoTR-Miniatures? <SNIIIIP> quite strange...)

That's what I dont like, generally, about the whole LotR-thing. All models look more or less the same. It could be a fantastic game-system, the models are "nice", but I'd never play it just for the fact that there is no "artistic freedom", as in you have (well, more or less) to paint the models like they look in the movies.

Back to looking at the pictures now....

edit: I am sorry, that Sauron should NOT have been there... It's drybrushed with boltgun-metal, only, for what I can see from here. I am NOT "against" drybrushing, but I painted better Necrons 8 years ago !! (That's when they just came out)
I am not the world's best painter, but... maybe it's that the photo doesnt do the mini justice ? *shrugs*

boar · Post by **boar** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:06 pm

From what i can see american GDs must really suck. Not that the english one doesn't. The best bit was the queuing last year!

Post by **Thadrin** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:52 pm

Most of the stuff is nice enough, but hardly the breathtaking standard I expect of a GD winner.

Lahatiel · Post by **Lahatiel** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:14 am

Yeah, the last few American GDs have been underwhelming. That's the main reason why I was so interested in taking a shot at GD Los Angeles in a couple weeks, and why I was so disappointed when I injured my wrist and was unable to complete any entries. Still not saying I could win anything, but I at leasat wanted to take a shot, whereas I probably wouldn't even bother if faced with the quality of some of the Euro GDs.

JaM · Post by **JaM** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 10:23 am

I think it depends on the area in the US... I have seen some nice things in the past (that Juggernaut of Khorne comes to mind). Maybe there are too much GD's there ?

Post by **Thadrin** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:05 am

Wasn't the Jugger canadian?

Lahatiel · Post by **Lahatiel** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:08 am

Yeah, that was at a Canadian GD.

Snorri · Post by **Snorri** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:33 am

JaM wrote:I think it depends on the area in the US... I have seen some nice things in the past (that Juggernaut of Khorne comes to mind). Maybe there are too much GD's there ?

I think that is it. The english GD has entrys from all over the world and in america there are mostly local entries.