"John Stallard Talks…" Topic

Dang that's some serious bed hair he has going on….

Whenever my wife sees someone like this she says: "He got up this morning and said, yeah this looks good"

A bit crappy to criticism someone's appearance on a wargaming forum. As my old grandad used to say "if you've got nothing nice to say…you're not trying hard enough!"

Sean…when a person does an interview for a company they are representing and there is a possibility of having a photograph taken, the least they can do is look basically professional. This includes, bathed, hair clean and combed, mustache and beard trimmed or combed, and at the least business casual clothing and in a professional looking environment.
It doesn't do a company's image well when the spokesperson looks slightly hung over, and seems to have slept in the clothing he is in, or he looks like he's just wandered in from 3 hours of yard work in the hot sun.
And if what we said gets you this worked up, then you have some really thin skin.
Lighten up Francis….

Perhaps he is trying to look like one of us, an ordinary wargamer, chatting casually about aspects of the hobby, rather than a corporate spokesperson?

Perhaps he is confident enough in his products to know that it is their quality that sells them, not his 'image'?

For myself, if X figures are in the scale I use, are well sculpted and reasonably priced, and the company has a good reputation for fulfilling orders and customer service, I'll buy them no matter what the CEO looks like.

Unscrupulous businessmen, confidence tricksters and politicians take the greatest care about how they present themselves, precisely because they are trying to deceive.