wdowney

Here is a shot of my finished Perdita box. Sorry the models on the back row are a bit blurry, still learning my camera. This set was really fun to paint, but the hair and leather were a challenge for me (I come from Warhammer 40k - lots of metal.) I had a lot of fun with it and am happy with how it turned out.

Interesting. I can see both sides to it. I own a small hobby shop and am going to be running my first event next month and I am going to allow unreleased models. They will have to be converted to where you can tell what they are. I see no problem with that. I do not like the silver army of doom where you can't tell what anything is. I also do not like counts-as armies (coming from Warhammer 40k.) I was at a tournament and a guy had some lizardmen Stegadons, some Eldar riding Cold Ones (lizard mounts) and a bunch of other random crap. I was like - 'oh neat, exodite Eldar" (these are Eldar - who are basically space elves - who live with nature and have animals and lizards and stuff) - and the guy was like "no, these are Tyranids" (giant space bugs.) I was floored, I couldn't tell what anything was supposed to be - stuff like that pisses me off.

Why do I keep seeing a resistance to people using unreleased models? I even saw somewhere where they allowed you to use unrealesed models, but only 10 souls stones worth. I can understand not wanting to use an empty base with a lego block on it, and I understand Wyrd not wanting people to use minis from other companies, but if someone converts up an existing Wyrd model to be an unreleased model, and you can easily tell what it is - why would that not be allowed in tournament play?