"WYSYWYG is an ideal. Do we really want to say to a person, who has paid for an event, booked a hotel, travelled across the country, that that unit of XXXX cant be used because its not the correct model. It is fair to say that there were models not WYSYWYG at the slaughter. But there was a scoring system included for people to mark their opponenent in regards to this. The wining army, had 6 glade guard, three painted one colour as waywatchers, three painted another colour as waywatcher heroes...ALex,the winner had three opponents mark him at maximum. SO as far as they were concerned they clearly had no issue.. "
This. Also personally i feel there is a very negative attitude on proxies which stifled conversions. To the point i actually class proxies and conversions as seperate.
A proxie is using something - unchanged - as something else - A giant as siege giant, a glade guard as a waywatcher hero etc - this should be discouraged
A conversion is something someone has taken time to make look different for asthetic purposes - and this should not be discouraged
I personally as a newcomer on the scene am getting more than a little hacked off with a certain prominant player getting a bee in his bonnet about a "proxie" of mine.,,,its not its a conversion.... i hate the actual sayl model. so i have done my own, with time and conversions and effort. I could of just used a normal sorcerer, i didnt, i sourced some bits i liked and did my own cos i hate the tentacled freak look of the original model. By yet every gaddam tourney he moans about this "proxy" like it somehow offended him personally. Even asking "if anything could be done" at sheffield.
Stifling creativity is a nono, and while i agree proxies should be stamped out, it should not be at the cost of stopping people converting - other wise everything will be samey and dull and frankly not a hobby id want to be part of.