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Originally Posted by
Cheesegear
My point is that there are second-party (the consumer) reprintings - and of course, recastings - of GW's actual miniatures currently on the market and in use.
If you can paint well enough, nobody can tell with photos. Of course it can become pretty obvious once you touch them and/or pick them up, and they're not the right weight that you thought they would be. It's just sad funny awkward shameful reality, that there are people right now, playing games with a single 'real' model, and then four or five more (total six) models that are not 'real'. What? You going to catch them out when you see photos of tournament tables? Of course you aren't. You can't tell anything.
As long as the pilot paints a marking that they understand onto the 'real' model, they can present that model to people IRL, and not allow people to touch - and especially pick up - the others. Which isn't unreasonable because not picking up other peoples' models is very much social etiquette 101.
The cat is currently peeking its head of the bag. GW knows it, and is trying to keep the cat in the bag for as long as it can. But the cat has been seen. It's only so long before the cat wants out, and is willing to rip apart the bag from the inside to get out.