this YT video about electroplating WH40K miniatures gives me this awesome idea;
* assemble what are obviously modern 40K minis and electroplate everything except the base with pewter
* set them on the game table and apologize for not having gotten 'round to painting your army yet
@Leucrotta ...that's...omg.
That's gotta be the dumbest but also simultaneous the funniest fuckin' army aesthetic I've ever heard of.
You roll up to a tourney & set out one or two of those minis, no one bats an eye.
By the time you've set out your fifth "pewter" Primaris Invader ATV, every single mirthless middle-aged wargame veteran in the room will have given your army a thorough glance & the greatest display of comical appreciation they can summon: