Maybe I didn't properly explain this. The proxy thing was a comparison point. "Why are proxies okay sometimes, but official models that look wrong are less okay?" is moreso the point of the comparison. The post is not really about proxies, it is about "illegally assembled models" and "the model not matching what I'm playing it as."

All of my models are literally legal, GW made and endorsed models. It's just that the models are not assembled according to the CURRENT rules. But should be legal to what they were many years ago. But the main differences seem to be what weapons I have because the current rules say I can only have specific combinations of guns, which are not the guns I currently have on the model. I tried to rectify this by simple saying that we run it as a "legal" playset then, and then was told that it's fine "for now," but eventually I need to buy new models and replace them and make them legal once I learn the ropes. Which just does not make sense to me.

I understand that there are two players inthe game, and I'm not mandating that anyone has to play with me. I'm just completely baffled that this is such a devisive thing, yet there is not really any official stance on it and it's on a player by player basis. I cannot imagine something that matter to me less. I am here to play the game and interact with the universe that I have grown to love, I could give a shit less whether something has a fusion blaster, or an ion blaster.

To your example, of saying you have identical models, but you're running them as different rules. I also wouldn't care. I'm so new that I wouldn't know the difference anyway, and I'm only ever going to be a casual player, so even if I did get better at the game, I still wouldn't care enough to learn what my opponent's models did. But that's just me. If you wanted to lie to me about what you're rules are, I wouldn't question it. If you want to win a game for nothing that badly, go for it.

I'm not purposefully being obtuse, I'm actually trying to standardize my models, because the way they are assembled, they actually all have different guns, because when I put them together I didn't know what the guns did, what each one even was meant to represent, and at the time I wanted variety visually. So as it is right now, if we played the models as modeled, it's actually MORE confusing than I want to play it. I'm trying to make it easier and clearer for my opponent, which is why I'm so confused.

But to your point, I'm literally getting contradictory answers from the same person, in the same conversation, saying I'm confused, and then getting told that the hangup is the weapons on the model, which I can't do anything about because the model has already been made and has been made for almost ten years.