Winners of Archvillain Games Painting Contest Grand Final 2025!
Hello to all,
We are super excited to share that we have the official final results and the final winners of our 2025 Painting Contest, the Grand Final winners!
Firstly, we would like to thank all participants of the whole 2025 Painting Contest. Throughout the whole year, our team was overwhelmed with the sheer amount of monthly participation of all of you and the final results of the work of so many talented miniature painters left us astonished more regularly than expected, congratulations to all the hundreds of participants throughout the year and we deeply thank you all for your enthusiasm and fantastic work, you have added so much inspiration and emotion to our work, we cannot be grateful enough to all of you and we hope you are enjoying your well-deserved prizes!
But the Grand Final could only feature the best of the best, 8 amazing artists gave it their all to conquer the peak and the two first places of the competition! The competition was close and fierce, and it was upon the Grand Final jury, the judges of the final, to evaluate the Grand Final entries.
Let’s meet our Grand Final Jury:
Grand Final Jury
The jury that evaluated the Grand Final submissions consisted of the following:
HEY GEARS:
Tuxuan Qiu
Model Painting Expert at HeyGears
With extensive experience in surface finishing and color application for 3D printed models.
Keen on craftsmanship and realism, he specializes in evaluating creativity, technical execution and artistic expression in model painting.
AMERALABS:
Andrius Darulis
Ameralabs Co-Founder
Andrius co-founded AmeraLabs 9 years ago, making resins for some of the world's largest miniature producers. Working with major manufacturers means constantly evaluating what makes miniatures paintable. He paints regularly himself, partly for enjoyment, partly to test whether the resin actually delivers what painters need.
ARCHVILLAIN GAMES:
Alex Kapotsis
Social Media Manager & Project Manager at Archvillain Games
An avid miniature painter of over 25 years. His background as a photographer, also adds to appreciating and evaluating creativity, details, textures and color combinations in miniature painting.
Without further ado, here are the winners for the Grand Final 2 categories:
Here are the Grand Final Winners:
Here are the winners of the Grand Final for both categories:
MONTHLY GRAND FINAL WINNERS
1st place goes to:
Rafał Łodyga for his astonishing work on the Hell Prince!
2nd place goes to:
Griffin for his beautiful Discarded Spawn of Pazuzu!
3rd place goes to:
minis.indy for his great work on the Stormchaser of Pazuzu!
CLASSIC GRAND FINAL WINNERS:
1st place goes to:
Paint_wee_guys for their fantastic painting of Amunet - The Peace!
2nd place goes to:
Daniel Friedmann for his awesome work on the Cryptwarden Centurion!
3rd place goes to:
Cedric Bernard for his superb Theron - The Vicious!
Let’s take a moment to admire and applaud all winners for their ecstatic work in our Grand Final, bravo to all contestants once again!
Winners Prizes
Here are the Grand Final Prizes for each category:
1st place - HeyGears Reflex RS Turbo 3D printer + HeyGears Heated Resin Tankand and 3kg of resin + 3 Months Free Archvillain Games Patreon or MMF Subscription for the Omniversal Tier.
2nd place - The Army Painter Fanatic Mega Set + 3 Months Free Archvillain Games Patreon or MMF Subscription for the Omniversal Tier.
3rd place - The Army Painter Fanatic Most Wanted set + 3 Months Free Archvillain Games Patreon or MMF Subscription for the Omniversal Tier.
All winners will be soon contacted via email to claim their prizes.
Sponsored by: AMERALABS, HEYGEARS and THE ARMY PAINTER
A HUGE thank you to our sponsors!
All our team here in Archvillain Games would like to take a moment and once again thank our amazing sponsors: HeyGears, The Army Painter and Ameralabs!
HeyGears creates amazing 3D printers, resin and so much more, check their website here!
The Army Painter has some of the best paints, brushes and miniature painting sets you have ever seen, you can find their website here!
Ameralabs produces some of the highest quality 3D printing resin you have ever seen, shop your resin here!
What comes next for our painting contest?
The 2025 Painting Contest marks the end of the traditional monthly formats of our Painting Contest after 5 years. After many hundreds of amazing submissions and even more prizes including more than 50 3D printers, more than 150 free monthly subscriptions, hundreds of liters of resin and dozens of miniature painting kits, we are saying goodbye to the regular Archvillain Games Painting Contest.
We want to thank each and every one of you that submitted their work to us and we hope you have all enjoyed this journey with us as much as we have!
But that’s not the end of miniature painting contests from us: we are planning something new for all the avid and loyal Archvillain Games miniatures painters out there, which will be announced in the next few months, so stay tuned!
Thank you all very much and keep on painting miniatures!
The Archvillain Games Team