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Maxime Penaud wins the SPIEL Essen Slayer Sword with an Ultramarines Terminator

Maxime Penaud wins the SPIEL Essen Slayer Sword with an Ultramarines Terminator
NewsMythscribe27 October 2026

Maxime Penaud has won the Slayer Sword at Golden Demon’s 2026 European competition at SPIEL Essen. The official results gallery identifies him as the overall winner and shows his blue-armoured Ultramarines Terminator miniature on a lava-strewn display base.

Maxime Penaud has won the Slayer Sword at Golden Demon’s 2026 European competition at SPIEL Essen. The official results gallery identifies him as the overall winner and shows his blue-armoured Ultramarines Terminator miniature on a lava-strewn display base. The same piece also took gold in Warhammer 40,000’s Single

Miniature category. Games Workshop’s October 25 gallery covers the other category winners, while further close-up coverage and painter interviews are planned through Warhammer Community and Painting Desk Roadshow on Warhammer+. The result gives hobby painters a detailed example to study across the miniature’s armour,

face, decoration and base. Read the official results. Image credit: Games Workshop; official Golden Demon SPIEL2026 Slayer Sword winner photograph. Miniature painted by Maxime Penaud.

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