Golden Gear 2025 Painting Competition Winners and Honorable Mentions!

The Golden Gear 2025 was a great success, we received 39 amazing entries for all the categories this year. Dream Pod 9’s Montreal Staff (Alain Gadbois, John Bell, and Robert Dubois) took the time over the last few days to judge the entries and select the winners and honorable mentions. Congratulations to the winners listed below.

Best Heavy Gear Blitz Miniature Winner:
Tim McClean – Dark Kodiak (Prize: Golden Gear 2025 Trophy and $125 USD DP9 online store rewards points credit).

Best Heavy Gear Blitz Combat Group Winner:
Stefan Locklair – South Combat Group (Prize: Golden Gear 2025 Trophy and $225 USD DP9 online store rewards points credit).

Best Duelist Miniature Winner:
Taw40000 – North Grizzly Duelist (Prize: Golden Gear 2025 Trophy and $125 USD DP9 online store rewards points credit).

Best Custom Build Winner:
Gia Khanh Hoang Nguyen  – King Cobra (Prize: Golden Gear 2025 Trophy and $125 USD DP9 online store rewards points credit).

Checkout the graphics attached with photos of the 4 Golden Gear Trophies we prepared, the winning entries and honorable mentions for each of the 4 categories. Honorable Mentions will each be receiving a $20 USD DP9 online store rewards points credit to their accounts. And everyone else that sent in an entry, but didn’t win or get an honorable mention with be getting a $5 USD DP9 online store rewards points credit to their accounts as a thank you for participating.

A Big Thank You to everyone who sent in entries for 2025. We’ll be back next year with Golden Gear 2026, so keep on painting.

If you want to see all entry photos visit the Golden Gear 2025 thread on the DP9 Forum at the link below.

https://dp9forum.com/topic/29438-golden-gear-2025-painting-competition-entry-photos/