During the SPIEL Essen event, the winners of the European leg of the “Golden Demon 2026” competition — a major painting contest for Warhammer miniatures and beyond — were announced. The highest award of the competition, the Slayer Sword, went to Maxime Penaud for his Marneus Augustus Calgar.
The winners in the “Warhammer 40,000: Single Miniature” category are (the gold winner is always listed first, followed by silver and bronze): Maxime Penaud, Karl Göbel, Matthew Caddy.
“Warhammer 40,000: Squad or Team” category: Baptiste Richebe, Wojciech Gregorczyk, Ross McCasker. “Warhammer 40,000: Large Miniature or Vehicle” category: Scott Burns, Arturo Arellano, Aaron Clark.
“Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Single Miniature” category: Marc Masclans Abello, Borja Calvo Bertrand de Lis, Valentin Colomb. “Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Unit or Team” category: Marco Pescini, Lucas Wiggering, Theodore Auclair.
“Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Large Miniature or War Machine” category: Valentin Colomb, Quan Tien Tung, Angelo Di Chello. “Warhammer: The Horus Heresy” category: Erkka Marttio, Pablo Garcia Salinas, Liam Hearne.
“Warhammer: The Old World” category: Quan Tien Tung, Baptiste Richebe, Saul Esteve. “Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game” category: Arnau Lazaro, Lucas Pina, Daniel Guijarro.
“Blood Bowl” category: Nicholas Rubens Mortensen, Magnus Mechtig, Ross McCasker. “Necromunda” category: Quan Tien Tung, Michal Hugo-Bader, Jakob Petersson. “Epic Scale” category: Gregor Pilarski, Nicholas Rubens Mortensen, Vincent Nguyen.
“Diorama” category: Angelo Di Chello, Javier Rodriguez Lozano, Albert Cerda. “Duel” category: Ivan Rosales, Alexis Bonnaire, Sebastian Schubert. “Young Bloods” category: Danny N, Stan K, Maximillian M. “Open Competition” category: Lucas Pina, Quan Tien Tung, Vincent Nguyen.