Sorry for nitpicking, but I'm kinda curious just where you draw the line.
Take, for example, this Battlefront ME 262:
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Same model, same base. Only difference (apart from the paint-job) is that one of the bases has been flocked. Are they both okay?
I’m asking because I’ve been toying with entering a heavily converted Ork Bomba which includes a base:
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Would that “fly“…? Ha… Ha… Okay… Sorry… Bad pun…
I can only speak for myself, of course...
I, honestly, think it sucks because a base or crew is a very big part of a model as that’s what creates a setting. A “narrative†if you like...
Yes, I could just paint up a tank, put it down on the table, and take a picture. But where’s the fun in that?
Put it on a base with grass and gently sloping ground, add a few tank-riders, and suddenly you have a T-34 charging across the steppes near Kursk.
As I said in the chat thread, I find un-based models to be utterly boring (in most cases, anyway). But that might just be me...?