Golden Demon Awards 1988
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Hi Guys, my genuine apologies for not replying until now, life rather got in the way, then took time to sort out these snaps & process them for the 256k limit, which I now have a decent method for. Will be looking for an image host soon enough to save bunging up the forums storage cap & myself time editing them.
. Have you any posters or such memorabellia from the Gds. Big admirer here of your painting by the way. Beautiful brushwork Tex.
. Short version is yes, I’m sure I did for the ‘88 (it’s hazy for ‘88, but your time allowing, the very long version elaborates on this) which was the first GD I attended, & certainly did for the ‘87 & definitely the GD ‘90 of which I also attended .
& yourself lenihan, did you attend that day or enter a piece?
Aside from the short version given, there is along version I wrote but haven’t posted it as very long posts of writing are not always welcome nowadays (especially after a very late reply & being a new poster to the forum), but it does give more depth from my experiences at GDs, more of a reminiscence really, so if you would like to read it I will happily post it for you in the reply line.
I did get a classic pin badge with the classic GD face of '88, the same design as the one '(I've forgotten the members name, apologies)' uses as his avatar, but I have no idea where that has gone sadly. Sadly indeed.
Regarding GD badges, I was concernedly gutted for couple of days that I couldn’t find my GD 1990 lapel pin that I got for getting through to the final ‘final’ cut in the GD 1990 competition in Darby. Thankfully I found it & is presented below with the figure entry I put into the comp for that year (just realised badge needs a cleaning of oxidisation on the back, yikes). He is a bit battered now (though in fine fettle compared to 'Sir Pression De La Masse'; explained in long version), with paint chips, glazes rubbed off, blending having muted over time, etc, but I’m really happy I still have him after all these years, & unlike my other entries which never took to photograph, I have plenty snaps of him now which I took the earlier in the week. It's a bit random as an entry being that he is segregated from the rest of his crew, but I didn't have much money as a kid & took what figures I could get really, hence his lonesome. I think i may have painted his hipped telescope as a bottle, or is it actually a bottle?
More to follow after this bunch as I didn't know there was 3 x max cap per post for images.
Your welcome Tex, was my pleasure to do so, thanks for taking an interest & commenting on my first postingsTex":q8huqgqs said:
. Have you any posters or such memorabellia from the Gds. Big admirer here of your painting by the way. Beautiful brushwork Tex.Thanks for the reply lenihan, & again my appreciations for taking an interest & commenting on my first postingslenihan":q8huqgqs said:
. Short version is yes, I’m sure I did for the ‘88 (it’s hazy for ‘88, but your time allowing, the very long version elaborates on this) which was the first GD I attended, & certainly did for the ‘87 & definitely the GD ‘90 of which I also attended .& yourself lenihan, did you attend that day or enter a piece?
Aside from the short version given, there is along version I wrote but haven’t posted it as very long posts of writing are not always welcome nowadays (especially after a very late reply & being a new poster to the forum), but it does give more depth from my experiences at GDs, more of a reminiscence really, so if you would like to read it I will happily post it for you in the reply line.
I did get a classic pin badge with the classic GD face of '88, the same design as the one '(I've forgotten the members name, apologies)' uses as his avatar, but I have no idea where that has gone sadly. Sadly indeed.
Regarding GD badges, I was concernedly gutted for couple of days that I couldn’t find my GD 1990 lapel pin that I got for getting through to the final ‘final’ cut in the GD 1990 competition in Darby. Thankfully I found it & is presented below with the figure entry I put into the comp for that year (just realised badge needs a cleaning of oxidisation on the back, yikes). He is a bit battered now (though in fine fettle compared to 'Sir Pression De La Masse'; explained in long version), with paint chips, glazes rubbed off, blending having muted over time, etc, but I’m really happy I still have him after all these years, & unlike my other entries which never took to photograph, I have plenty snaps of him now which I took the earlier in the week. It's a bit random as an entry being that he is segregated from the rest of his crew, but I didn't have much money as a kid & took what figures I could get really, hence his lonesome. I think i may have painted his hipped telescope as a bottle, or is it actually a bottle?
More to follow after this bunch as I didn't know there was 3 x max cap per post for images.
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Shrooms, Moss & Flora were made from Milliput. One of the little ball Agaric mushrooms has went missing
, will need to fix that. Part of the stipple texturing was done with an old toothbrush, not the best for that scale 
. Some of the bristles came out, so I stuck them on the base as those rather thick reedy stalk things painted umberish tipped with custard yellow. Waste not, want not.
If you look closely (more evident in the other pics actually) you can see those flat round disk like stone things embedded in the ground, they were some bead type stuff from an old burst 'Hacky Sack' ('Hacky Sacks' from the late 80s were small soft leather juggling balls intended for beach bum styled trick sporty footwork of keeping it in the air to another person on the team. No, not my thing, I just happened to have one somehow. Probs why it's burst. Probs from very aggressively playing dodgee ball with my pals & absolutely nothng to do with californi-esque fancy footed beach ball juggling)
Ground was a mixture of a weird concoction. Wallpaper paste, latex & cotton. Don't ask why, it's what I had to hand at the time. "to hand", strange I know. Was kind of rubbery, surprised it hasn't gone mouldy or cracked after all these years. I might have added in some sawdust flock aswell, but I'm conjecturing on that ingredient if I'm honest.
It was originally attached on a lathed flat round plynth that my Dad made from MDF & was painted black. I may still have the base plynth somewhere.
Shrooms, Moss & Flora were made from Milliput. One of the little ball Agaric mushrooms has went missing
, will need to fix that. Part of the stipple texturing was done with an old toothbrush, not the best for that scale . Some of the bristles came out, so I stuck them on the base as those rather thick reedy stalk things painted umberish tipped with custard yellow. Waste not, want not.If you look closely (more evident in the other pics actually) you can see those flat round disk like stone things embedded in the ground, they were some bead type stuff from an old burst 'Hacky Sack'
('Hacky Sacks' from the late 80s were small soft leather juggling balls intended for beach bum styled trick sporty footwork of keeping it in the air to another person on the team. No, not my thing, I just happened to have one somehow. Probs why it's burst. Probs from very aggressively playing dodgee ball with my pals & absolutely nothng to do with californi-esque fancy footed beach ball juggling)Ground was a mixture of a weird concoction. Wallpaper paste, latex & cotton. Don't ask why, it's what I had to hand at the time. "to hand", strange I know. Was kind of rubbery, surprised it hasn't gone mouldy or cracked after all these years. I might have added in some sawdust flock aswell, but I'm conjecturing on that ingredient if I'm honest.
It was originally attached on a lathed flat round plynth that my Dad made from MDF & was painted black. I may still have the base plynth somewhere.
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& finally his wee leather satchel - In hindsightI I quite like this, as I still enjoy painting leather, maybe because browns are easier to blend, though I'm not sure why, but do I like the tones I used.
30years on it's intersting looking back to old painting as it was so long ago one can seperate the ego or misgivings from oneself a bit, for the positive or negative
30years on it's intersting looking back to old painting as it was so long ago one can seperate the ego or misgivings from oneself a bit, for the positive or negative
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And I nearly forgot about this chap.
He was painted by me in the speed painting competition held at the GD '90. We were given the troll figure & had to paint him in a certain amount of time to win a prize, on the very day at the show. But I can't remember how long we had, but it do recollect it being frantic.
Was anyone there that can confirm the duration we were given? Was it 15minutes, 30-40minutes, an hour?
Ayway, here is the Jes G 'Marsh Troll' I painted in the given time. I didn't win . I have left him as unfinished on the very day I painted him, for nostalgia & posterity
He was painted by me in the speed painting competition held at the GD '90. We were given the troll figure & had to paint him in a certain amount of time to win a prize, on the very day at the show. But I can't remember how long we had, but it do recollect it being frantic.
Was anyone there that can confirm the duration we were given? Was it 15minutes, 30-40minutes, an hour?
Ayway, here is the Jes G 'Marsh Troll' I painted in the given time. I didn't win
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Fantastic stuff! That base is gorgeous. Really like that old school vibe so to say.
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Loose Loser":pocej0tr said:
Thanks Loose Loser. Much appreciated
It's definitely old school, for real old school painted back in 1990 (though I'm sure some folks on here have figures stretching back to having been painted in the 70s 
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Loveliness! The orc is quite pretty indeed and the troll is quite neat.
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symphonicpoet":1mu4des4 said:Loveliness! The orc is quite pretty indeed and the troll is quite neat.
Thanks Symphonic
It's lovely to still have him after all these years, & he has held up well having moved around with me so much over those years. I might give him a bit of TLC at some point, though maybe it's better he ages alongside me, knocks, scrapes, bits falling off & all the rest
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^I simply hope that most of my own knocks and scrapes have been acquired as honorably as those of my toys. (But there's nothing wrong with a spot of TLC every now and then.)
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symphonicpoet":rpdjadh5 said:
Well said Sir, & very true
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Really love your work: your blending skills are second to none!
That ork would be worth an appearance in one of the classic Fantasy Miniatures book: the epitome of old school GD.
I will try to dig some of my GD memorabilia out: I attended in 2000 only (one shot, one kill ) and I'm sure I've kept a lot of little things from that experience!
Really love your work: your blending skills are second to none!
That ork would be worth an appearance in one of the classic Fantasy Miniatures book: the epitome of old school GD.
I will try to dig some of my GD memorabilia out: I attended in 2000 only (one shot, one kill
) and I'm sure I've kept a lot of little things from that experience!