I like 'em. Even if you don't like them as they are they have a lot of conversion potential. Even built as designed without conversion I'd imagine they could work well in a VSF setting with human crew and a less gaudy paintjob (either dowdy old Ocean Grey or Military Grey depending on mood).
Won't be cheap, but there are lots of places to get GW stuff with 20% off and I've been very impressed with the quality of sculpt and robustness of recent GW offerings.
I think a lot of wargamers have a knee jerk 'I hate this!' reaction to anything GW. If these models had been kickstarted by some small obscure company I think the reactions would be quite different. Just my opinion of course-no offense meant