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So it appears that some sad muppet felt like robbing some geniune young talent of the respect it deserves. What follows is a post by the artist who painted the Gold YB mini in this years GDUK -

"This morning I recieved this message from somebody on cool mini -

'Just noticed this mini won a Golden Demon in the UK youngbloods catagory: http://demonwinner.free.fr/uk/2010/golden_demon_winner.php?categorie=12....'

This is a miniature I painted a couple years back and sold on ebay http://www.coolminiornot.com/182917"

*Gasp!*

This is a c&p from an email that the original artist recieved from GW hq recently. He has posted it publically himself and so I presume he doesn't the news being shared elsewhere here amoung the Dakka community.


"Hi,

David Heathfield in the 'Eavy Metal team forwarded me your contact details so that I could let you know what we're doing about your Tau Ethereal that someone else entered into – and won Gold with – the Young Bloods category at this year's UK Golden Demon competition. We will shortly be removing the images of the model and the name of the winner from the 2010 UK Golden Demon winners page of the Games Workshop website, as it's now apparent that it wasn't Sean Graham who painted it, it was you.

I understand from the rules to the competition that anyone knowingly entering someone else's work as their own is immediately disqualified and forbidden from entering future Golden Demon painting competitions, so if Sean Graham ever had a bright future ahead of him as a miniatures painter we won't hear about it at the Golden Demons.

Thank you for letting us know about your Ethereal; I hope you don't see any more of your models entered into Golden Demon under other people's names in the future!"


Just a friendly reminder for those that choose to tarnish our hobby with this disgusting behaviour. The world is smaller than you think, and you WILL be found out.

The inquisition knows all...

Let the the burning, and cries of "Heretic!" begin!

They give the winners of these things trophies right? They going to take it back from him?

Don't know if they can/will actually, but the award and title has (presumably) already been removed by now.

The cheating bugger now has a reminder of his underhand exploits on his shelf though, which hopefully will serve as good character building for him should he choose to accept the consequences of his actions.

Not sure about how/if they will elevate the other entries into bronze either, but I will let you know if I hear anything.

Makes you wonder if the kid was put up to it by someone craving a Golden Daemon...Those things ain't easy to come by, and Youngbloods, entered fraudulentlly arguably offers the easier route to one.

Theres a Dakkaite who posts here that states he won the Bronze at said event.

Congrats kid, looks like you have just won silver!

The kid should have his name posted to all GW in the area and should be band from all painting events. Even small in store things.

so who will now be bronze winner? all of them were very good

Terribly disappointing.

Just hope they can correctly allocate the trophies now. Personally, I think a letter requesting this "Sean Graham" to return the Gold trophy would not be out of order.

Padre^.

So OP

How did you feel when you first found out someone entered your model in a GD and called it theirs?

Eh? It wasn't my work.

Oh, so you were quoting other people. Now I get it. I more or less skimmed the post.

"Voting Guide: Pretend you're a Golden Demon judge. Painting skill, imagination and style are key!"

This is particularly hilarious in retrospect . . .

Bang out of order.....

This saddens me when I read or hear about stuff like this. I competed twice before I even took my bronze, and believe me no award felt sweater as when I "EARNED" mine as all of the hard work paid off. Hopefully I will continue to improve as I am always striving at it because it means something to earn titles and awards, not to take credit for somone elses hard work.

Disgusting behaviour.

It will take a lot for people to trust that person now.

I want a big picture of that cheating little git in White Dwarf along with a damning article about cheating.

(I might even buy it for that...)

Get it on the website as well - Burn the heretic lmfao

The only problem with all that is that he is under 18, which presents a possible problem with splashing his face all over the place calling him a filthy cheater.

Although I agree that it would be a good thing to do, just as I believe that all scallywags (young and old) should be put into public stocks so that people can pelt them with rotten fruit.

I wonder what the parents would have to say about this..



Unless of course, they are involved..

I can kind of understand this happening in the adult categories, but to cheat against children? That's low.

It was children against children, even playing field

It wouldn't matter who it was against, the fact that they entered someone elses work in as their own is totally against the rules, as welll as being morally wrong.

I hope he is somehow 'shamed and then he might realise what he has done to make sure that he stops this stupid behaviour before it b ecomes habit.

Thats really unfortunate.

The Decapitator wrote:It wouldn't matter who it was against,

Yeah cheating is wrong, but I was pointing out, as far as we know, it was his parent entering by proxie.

So he bought a well painted mini on Ebay and entered it. What a dolt.

Yup thats an awesome set of morals that kid has. Even worse if it was a parent that just used his name. I still personally think alot of young blood entires are painted by parents. Not saying kids cant paint, because I have seen some amazing work done by youngins, just a personal opinion is all

Orki wrote:

Let the the burning, and cries of "Heretic!" begin!

Sure.
BURN THE HERETIC.

GW`s mail is pretty straightforward. No BS-ing around. I like that.

...and he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!

MIKEtheMERCILESS wrote:...and he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!

But he was a kid himself :(

SilverMK2 wrote:The only problem with all that is that he is under 18, which presents a possible problem with splashing his face all over the place calling him a filthy cheater.

Although I agree that it would be a good thing to do, just as I believe that all scallywags (young and old) should be put into public stocks so that people can pelt them with rotten fruit.

Old enough to cheat, old enough to be beaten!