If you play in GW stores you will always get crap in situations like this ... what I don't understand though is why it seems (at least in my experience) that a high percentage of 40k players seem to have issues with counts-as and alternate companies' models, whereas in WHFB (with much of the gaming population shared across both games) people love alternate companies and built-yourself conversions when done well, and if anything, you are looked to as someone who has gone above and beyond in doing something cool. Hell, to me a sci-fi setting transpiring around an entire galaxy seems to scream for conversion and counts-as models.