"What GW have done in this case is essentially call dibs\" on models because they wrote a book about them, and then took it to court.But would chapterhouse studios and other groups still have produced models for the nids codex and others if there wasn't rules for them in GW products?No they would not, nor would they have done so if GW had never devised Warhammer 40,000 in the first place." . . . <40konline.com> .