++ PAINTING & MODELLING ++
Note: These details for
correct for 2010.
This category counts for 0-30
points.
Please judge your own army for
Q1 to Q7 to give yourself a score between 9 and 27, the judge
will discuss this with you.
Q1 - Is everything painted/based?
- No metal/plastic visible (and the
painting judge will tell you not to field this
model again)
- No undercoat visible (and the
painting judge will tell you not to field this
model again)
- Painted, sand or flocked bases
9 points
Running
total: 9 points - This is the minimum standard for
entry
Q2 - Can the your opponent
identify characters (squad leaders) and Independent
Characters?
3 points
Q3 - Can your opponent tell squads apart?
3 points
Q4 - Is the army's paint scheme and
basing cohesive?
3 points
Running
total: 18 points - This is a tournament standard army
Advanced criteria -
Q5 - Is the army WYSIWYG?
1 point for the army
1 point for Independent
Characters (wargear especially).
Q6 - Extra detail?
1 to 5 points
People's creativity is limitless so we
can only give a vague indication of what "extra detail" covers,
but it is such things as, but not limited to:
- Bases are not just flocked or
painted sand.
- Squad markings, more than just
enough to identify different squads and/or hand painted, not
decals
- Hand drawn stuff
- Conversions
You don't lose points for not having exactly what is listed,
these are just examples.
Q7 - Highlighting and shading?
1 to 5 points
An extra line of colour 1 point, beautifully shaded 3 points
Running
total: 30 points of which you can score a maximum of
27 - This is an exceptional army
Q8 - Masterclass - Is this one
of the top ten picks?
3 points
The goal of Arc40K was, is,
and always shall be to have a good time. We
have tried to keep this in mind when compiling the guidelines
for the painting judging. How does painting affect this? Playing
against a painted army is much more enjoyable than playing
against an unpainted/unassembled one, and if you can readily
identify parts of your opponents army then the game plays that
much better. That's what is required for a tournament standard
army at Arc40K. If you have this then you get at least 18 points
out of 27 for painting.
For those that wish to go further it does get harder, the
marking is exponentially harder on purpose. The first 9 points
you get for the minimum paint job that
can be fielded, the next 9 gets you to a tournament standard
army, to get all of the next 9 points you have to have extra
detail, shading, the whole lot, an
exceptional army by anyone's standards.
This year we have put more points into the Advanced Criteria
category, so that if you a master painter but not a converter
you can still get maximum, and vice versa.
Ten of the armies that score full marks (27) will be awarded
bonus points for being the top ten armies on the day.
