It never ceases to bug me that you get these gamers who fanatically switch armies to follow metagames constantly, and will spend oodles on a game just because it isn't GW (or the equally annoying ones who do the exact opposite, and don't play anything else), spending money on these games with a truly finite shelf life (either because the company screws up [Rackham] or because the rules change and turn people away [GW, PP etc], yet the same people will niggle over going to the effort of making a small, and characterful skirmish unit for a game that is not ever going to change again, and can be reused every single time you play the game in the future.
That is the
wonderful thing about
all SGs. If you buy stuff to play it, you've made an investment, one that you can cash in more than once. But try convincing people of that. I've spent over half my lifetime trying to, and over half the time failing miserably, despite unbelievably massive evidence that I have accrued by myself that the expense, the pathetically small expense, is so often worth it, which isn't the case with a lot of games set in a much grander scale.
Essentially a lot of gamers are cheap-asses. Where the

did all the hobbyists go?
I have 4 gangs. In most of my Necromunda playing life, I've only ever used one of them, in more campaigns than some of our hobbyists have had hot dinners. I have some purple Delaques. I love them, always have, and I made sure I got the entire range of Delaques barring one single model before the death of Mail Order (that model being the Gang Leader with Power Axe and HAIR[?!?!?!?]).
I also have a massive Goliath Gang, a slowly building Scavvy Gang, and somewhere I have a Guilder Gang, but I want to make a new one at some point. I plan to convert all of the Gangs of which I don't currently like the models, and that's Van Saars (never liked them, but I've been recently inspired by the Necromunda Campaign report they did after the release of Underhive to make a Cyberpunk-esque gang), Redemption (the new ones are horrible, sorry, but they are - I'm thinking of building up from fantasy Empire models), I'll probably do some Spyrers for a laugh, and I also have enough bits for an Arbite Gang (got quite a few of the old Arbite models), an Orlock Gang (large mix of old and new bits, I actually have spare models if people are interested in a necro for necro trade) and I have pretty much every Hired Gun going, and if I don't have it, I plan to make one.
Mind you, I can easily be described as a Necromunda Fanatic, because I am.
The fact is though, I do the extra for the love of the game. I've had a functional gang that has slowly evolved over 17 years. I don't think there was actually a time I didn't have them to tabletop quality, and although I've took my time with conversions, it's necromunda we're talking about, I've seen people scolded for failing to field completed 3000pt Warhammer armies; I take NO excuse for between 5 and 20 models.
Yes indeed I would hate your gaming group, although I would avoid ranting (as that would kill any chance of the game actually continuing in your club), so what I'd likely try and do is make the game extremely fun, underplay the whole gang rating/tournament play-off style in favour of a narrative campaign. Unfortunately, like Inquisitor, Necromunda is a victim of its own complexity. If you don't get the balance right, the experience is absolutely rubbish, something, thankfully more rare with Necro, and a lot more likely with Inquisitor ([sarcasm]
my heart bleeds...[/sarcasm]

).
Anyway, don't get me wrong. I don't have anything against anyone who wants to convert, at least not now, when the range has genuinely been ruined and most of the best models discontinued (I will never forgive GW for allowing the Wyrds to go out of production). If you go to the effort, and make an original looking gang, wonderful. You help immensely.
However, doing it solely because it is cheap, trying to pass it off as hating the metal models and wanting to be original (Cut the bullsh*t. They're being cheap sods, and I'll call them on it, and I'll be right. They should at least be man (or woman) enough to actually admit it!), and generally not actually bothering to do a decent job, well I could nut them, seriously, I could. I have people like them, to thank for the state my favourite game exists in, whilst they bitch and moan about how great their pet system is, and all the horrendously overpowered combos and stuff. I seriously don't care, dude. I've had more of these morons turn up with their feckless attitude and ruin decent campaigns by not ever trying, at all, and usually throwing a strop and quitting when their first heavy dies. Cry me a frigging river.
Necromunda is a game of a lot simple complexity. On face value, it is good. The more you put into it, the better it gets, and every time I run a campaign I put everything into it. I've stopped actually playing the game because of the amount of work and effort I do to coordinate the campaigns. My number one pleasure is something I do without in order to make the Necromunda experience the best for everyone else as possible. If someone was to turn up to one of those with second hand, non-converted, barely painted models (especially Imps - going out to find suitable models from other ranges is not quite as annoying), then by rights I will want to nut them, and they will be lucky if I have nice words to say regarding them, and the perfectly good protoplasm their existence is waisted on.
By rights I'll make sure they leave the campaign, and if I see them again,
I'll vomit in their face.
That's the kind of reaction I have to those gits.
On a lighter note, pics would be very nice. This is still a wonderful game, and I could use some encouragement to re-engage my efforts for Necromunda on this forum. Your Van Saars were yellow weren't they, ya spangly git.

How do I know? I spied on you, obviously. Those arbites that did that thing to your thing? That was my fault, sorry.
So yeah DJ, post up a new thread with some nice gang pics, and I'll definitely leave some comments, and you may even give me the urge to get some of my gangs out and get them into shape for some photos of my own.