One of the armies highlighted by a preeminent pod cast as not being worthy of the table and would not be allowed at the podcasters event, has been at most of the main events this year and has not been identified as poor. The same army as also appeared on Warhammer TV twice with positive comments from the WHTV crew on air.
I faced one 'under painted' army at the Slaughter and faced four either well painted or excellently painted armies. The 'under painted' army was the new tzeentch stuff painted by Mark Wildman, who is a great painter, but with the book and the army being new he did not have time to finish his work, should we have banned the list, I would say no as once again I have seen said painting standard at several events including all of the preeminent podcast run events. IMO if you go looking for a subject to criticise you can often find it. I have faced lots of people over the years with shockingly painted and presented armies and they have not been removed by T/O's.
I think we have to be inclusive not exclusive, taking models of tables or banning a paint scheme is very dodgy ground, what if said painter was registered disabled and they were using their best work......
For the rest of my opinions on painting at the Slaughter see Pete's comments above
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