Its a shame to miss you, try coming to C&T on tuesdays when the big group comes down or arrange a game for sundays. For some reason no one plays it on Thursdays as there tends to be alot of Fantasy or FOW going on at the moment.
As for converted models on day one I will leave that to the comminity to decide. I would prefer to see people use any (suitable) models they like and actively encourage conversions. My gut instinct tells me it would be okay we all know that cannot be trusted :Confused_Puppet2:.