Thanks guys. Still waiting for the voting link to go live, even though I see a few of you voted early
GW is killing me - I don't have the time, space, or inclination to play their large scale games, and their prices are on the high side of the hobby. But these last few releases have been outstanding. So I seem to have found a compromise. I have friends who still buy and play the game, so I just "suggest" minis they should get, and then I paint them. That way I don't have to fork over money I'd rather spend on KD or CMON, and I don't have to decide what I'm going to do with all these GW minis I don't use.
For instance, one of my friends just picked up the Dark Vengeance box. As soon as I saw it, I told him I HAD to paint that Chaos dread. And while I was at it, I'd do the Chaos characters too. He brought the sprues in, and I think I'm just going to do the chosen ones and cultists that are on it too. They really are nice sculpts.
Hopefully I can convince my other friend to follow thru with his plan to pick up some FW pre-Heresy stuff
Pics later - I just got the dread assembled and prepped and pinned.