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If you need motivated or made to despair your painting skills, here are some pictures from the Golden Daemon in France. As you may suspect, the page is in French but Google translator makes a decent job of it.

That Talos is magnificent!

R.

Those Crisis suits, I want them, soooo much. I wonder where he got the models from or how he converted them

Despair? No. Motivated? No.

Do I think that the work is incredible? No, not really due being overwhelmed by some awesomeness from this site (as well as others).

I know the people who do the painting competition spend a great amount of time in their creations and they should be commended on that aspect.

But painting competitions are subjective by nature and after awhile to me everything is "just the same".

However, thank you for showing us what is being done in France.

Ooh la la.

French GD - the one time of the year the French can show us just how much better they are at this than the rest of us.

Adam - you really are correct - there's a certain region of quality that these award-winning projects reside in that doesn't ever seem to break into the hyper-creative. There's a particular similarity amongst them.

Colors are lush, blends are perfect and all of the text-book techniques are executed flawlessly - but I tell you I get more interested in a less well-painted project that's got a certain special touch that can only happen from someone who's doing it for the love and not the competition.

That being said, I do love looking at this stuff, but it's not inspiring because I'll never be able to paint like this ever, and it doesn't make me despair either because I like my punky-old style painting style that kind of stops at a certain point (when I say, eh... good enough).

But I love looking at these pics though, thanks for sharing this link!

precinctomega wrote:That Talos is magnificent!

R.

Holy cow! How'd they build that beautiful monster?

Out of Sculpey and greenstuff, it looks like.

However, it is worth observing that, aside from a handful of entries, the overall standard in France seems to have gone down.

This might be the photography, but I wonder if the gloss on the GW brand has tarnished a bit, recently, seeing the best painters heading to Euromilitaire and other events...

R.

precinctomega wrote: seeing the best painters heading to Euromilitaire and other events...

R.

This would be the safest bet...

Also, GW's restrictions are a tad stifling for such creative types.

Some good painting in there, but a lot of the pastel colour schemes remind me of stuff in White Dwarf 10+ years ago.

I didn't particularly like the Avatar. The painting was good, but it was so bright that I couldn't make out any detail at all. I know that was probably the intention (to make it look like it was glowing) but I just didn't like it much myself.

ZeroSamurai wrote:Those Crisis suits, I want them, soooo much. I wonder where he got the models from or how he converted them

The suits are from Forge World. http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Tau/TAU-BATTLESUITS-AND-DRONES?filter_reset=1

They are very cool.

The Crisis suits, Avatar and Nurgle Engine are the sex.

Well, maybe not the Nurgle Engine that much, but it is awesome.

The lighting effects on those Crisis Suits were just insane.

Thanks for the post, neat to see all the people that paint leagues better than me.

Agreed on the Crisis Suits, I loved the lighting effects.

my faves are the wardancer and the squig .
it is funny how you can tell countries aprt by there painting styles .
but as people have said they are allways amazeingly painted but seem to lack soul.

There were some amazing models exposed for the contest, and I'd say that the most incredible ones were (sadly) not awarded (the mechanicus train and a beautiful warhound deserved something)

Here are the pics I took there (sorry for the poor quality, it was hard to get a decent pic):
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-20018-16867_Games%20Day%20Paris%202011.html