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WARHAMMER 40K CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS 2007

PAINT SCORING 

How Paint scores will be determined:

01.  Is the army FULLY painted to tournament standards? (3+ colors on every model)

02.  Are ALL the models based nicely? (painted, sculpted, flocked, etc.)

03.  Does the basing for the entire army match? (Either a board or each other)

04.  Does the army have insignia or something visual separating unit designation?

05.  Does the army look like an army? *

06.  Do the character models and army centerpieces stand out?

07.  Are the model details for the models fully picked out and painted? (eyes, holsters, emblems, etc…)

08.  Was care taken in the assembly of the models? (Minimal mold lines, clean gluing, parts line up.)

09.  Does the army have any conversions or creative modeling techniques? (Green stuff, Frankenstein models, weapon swap outs, combat poses)

10.  Was the army painted to an above average standard?**

* This question confuses a lot of people, so here’s some fine print. J We’re looking for the army to look like it was painted with the intent to be played as an army here.  What we don’t want to see is a space marine force made up of 4 or five different chapters all based differently.  It can be painted great, and it can be a legal army, but it will probably lose these two points in painting.

For example, if a player started Ianden craftworld and painted 1000 points of blue and yellow elder based with sand, then played Biel’tan craftworld and painted 1000 points of green and white eldar based with grass and then came to this 1850 tournament, with about half and half, where some guardian squads were Ianden, and Some were Biel’tan with different bases and all, The army will lose these two points.

 However, a codex elder army where the guardians are all painted uniform, but the elites were painted their own colors (Fire Dragons red, Striking Scorpions green, Swooping Hawks Blue, etc.) would NOT get marked down as the army was painted with the intent of being used together and ‘looks like an army.’

If a player painted 1500 points of Witchhunter in red, white and black, and then, to finish of their 1850 bought a standard sister unit off ebay even though it was painted in a dramatically different color scheme, let’s say, Blue and purple.  This army probably wouldn’t ‘look like an army’ and would lose these two points.

 Imperial Guard are supposed to be conscripted from lots of different planets, so if some of the models are Cadian and some are Catachan and some are Tellaran if would not get marked down because it would still “look like an army.”

I know it’s a complex guideline and begs for clarification, so there ya go.  I hope these examples help.

** As per the paint judges discretion.