I got finalist pins on 4 of my 5 entries but no demons. I'm not sure but there seemed to be very few finalists in the 40k monster catagory, at least there only looked to be about 6 in the cabinet unless there were more elsewhere. If there were only 6 then it makes me feel a bit better as one of them was mine.
Overall on the day it seemed like there were fewer people, which in a way was nice.... less fighting through crowds. Could be due to a lot less participation boards and the sales area being a separate portion of the arena. Bar the queuing fiasco at the start that worked rather well and it made for a more pleasant experience.... although having only 100 copies of Promethian on sale meant that unless you were first in the queue you didn't stand a chance, especially if you were on a GW bus that gets delayed. Would have been far better to effectively raffle them off to anyone who had bought a BL book. I haven't looked but I bet a fair few copies made there way very quickly onto Ebay.... at a very inflated price.
As for completing the Demons list Adrian Bay aka Vincenti got the Silver in large scale catagory. This is the only catagory which I did not agree with the order of merit as IMO Adrians model was the superior paint job of the three. GW make a big thing about "it's the paint job and not the conversion(if any) that counts" yet Adrians Kroot on Krootox was a beautiful display of blending and colour selection. Don't get me wrong the winning Death company marine was nice in it's way but did not display the same level of painting.
Someone who did get it just right was Angelo Di Chello who picked up 4 gold demons ( yes that's right 4) and a bronze as well as the Slayer sword. He'd have needed an extra suitcase to get that haul back home. Anyone who wants to know how to win a demon... look at how he painted his entries because that is what the judges are looking for.
