Lead Painters' League Season 5 Rules

[answer_is_42]

I'll certianly try to take part, although being at uni probably means I won't be able to have something new out every round.
The film one'll be tricky. Might just repost my A-Team figures and hope no-one notices.

[Belgian]

May you use miniatures that have been shown on your blog as WIP?

Greets,

[Captain Blood]

May you use miniatures that have been shown on your blog as WIP?

Greets,

To undercoated stage only.
The problem is, if we say we allow partially painted figures to count as new, where do you draw the line?
So I'm afraid it has to be, if the figures have been shown anywhere before, even part painted, then they do not qualify for 'newly painted' bonus points.

Please gents, help me out here, this is becoming a little tiring! Just paint some new figures would you, and stop trying to figure out ways of using your old stuff! 
 

[Red Orc]

I think maybe that for some of us, the lead mountain is already too daunting and not properly painted enough, so rather than getting new figures and painting them from scratch, we'd rather find a way of using some of the figures that we've started and not finished. It's not about using old stuff, it's about not starting yet another project when we have so many uncompleted.

Or maybe it's only me that has hundreds of partly painted minis lying about... 

[Belgian]

To undercoated stage only.
The problem is, if we say we allow partially painted figures to count as new, where do you draw the line?
So I'm afraid it has to be, if the figures have been shown anywhere before, even part painted, then they do not qualify for 'newly painted' bonus points.

Please gents, help me out here, this is becoming a little tiring! Just paint some new figures would you, and stop trying to figure out ways of using your old stuff! 
 

Sorry, for tiring you but's only a pitty that I've posted my partially painted African bearers on my blog which can serve for both the first bonus round and the fifth. Being a student I don't have a massive amount of unpainted lead, stashed away in the darkest corners of my dwelling 

Greets, and again sorry for the inconvience.

[Westfalia Chris]

Sorry, for tiring you but's only a pitty that I've posted my partially painted African bearers on my blog which can serve for both the first bonus round and the fifth.

Actually, it's either/or as to the rounds. If you showed them for the civilian round, they wouldn't qualify as "new" for the fifth round and therefore wouldn't incur the bonus.

The thing is that there should not be a precedent, and previous experience shows that some take every opportunity to kick up a ruckus about perceived injustices.

[Captain Blood]

The intent of the rules is clear enough. Newly painted teams, which have not been previously shown in a painted or part painted state (in which case, they would by definition, not be newly painted for the LPL) get 'newly painted' team bonus points.

I sympathize if you have piles of half-painted figures lying around which you have previously published. If you finish them, you can of course enter them in the LPL, but they don't qualify for newly painted bonus points if they are not genuinely newly painted. That's the rule.   

[Muskie]

Not that I expect to win.  But if I have something lets say a Bloodbowl team I've never shown on Lead Adventure forum, but may have been photographed somewhere else by someone, but obviously not the official five, say in-game shots or whatever, is that OK?

Do Bloodbowl players count as non-combatants, they don't have guns or melee weapons.  ;-)

[Silent Invader]

Is the LPL's rule interpretation always this traumatic?   

[Hammers]

Is the LPL's rule interpretation always this traumatic?   

Where have you been the last four years? 

[Overlord]

Is the LPL's rule interpretation always this traumatic?   

Increasingly so....
Just take 5 (or more) minatures, paint, photograph, repeat 9 times. Its not rocket surgery.  

[Westfalia Chris]

I must note, though, that this year I am under the impression that people display a certain troll-like perseverance in asking, essentially, the same question over and over again.

Seriously, I thought I worded that cleary in the rules, and Richard defined "painted and previously shown" as "beyond the undercoat stage".

Also, some people don't seem to understand that having shown them previously elsewhere does NOT make figures ineligible for the competition. It just means you won't get the 10 "New Team" bonus points, or the "Theme" bonus points for the special rounds. I suspect people overestimate the importance of these bonus points. Personally, I think the major advantage of having an "unseen" entry for a round is that it increases your winning chances due to the novelty factor.

[Captain Blood]

But if I have something lets say a Bloodbowl team I've never shown on Lead Adventure forum, but may have been photographed somewhere else by someone, but obviously not the official five, say in-game shots or whatever, is that OK?

Strictly, according to the rules, no. Although if you have one or two figures which have inadvertently been snapped 'in-game' and posted somewhere else, and you include those in your LPL team, then I can't imagine anyone is going to notice or object.

Do Bloodbowl players count as non-combatants, they don't have guns or melee weapons.  ;-)

But they are combatants in the game, right? Not bystanders. And as part of a uniformed team, not strictly civilian either. So on balance, that's a no.

[Doomhippie]

I'll try to take part this time and I think it'll be easiest to just go ahead and paint something. I might have the advantage of having lots of... decently... painted models around which I've never photographed before. I'll try to paint new models but I'm sure, one or two older models will slip in. Oh, and since I'm planning on painting a few goblins or orcs from the Lord of the Rings range and have posted some battlereports with them before I hereby promise that the models I'll show here will all be newly painted ones. Trust me, it's me... trust me anyway. 

[answer_is_42]

Its not rocket surgery.  

Good point; what if I was to paint a team of rocket surgeons? Would their various tools etc count as weapons? Does the rocket count as terrain or a model? Could I use them in the Africa round if I said they were flying to Africa?