I still have the harpies I painted and based back in 2000 at 3 to a stand so that sounds good. I wasn't clever enough back then to change the number of models per stand to make an extra unit that way so it sounds like they must have changed the number of models in the blisters to move more pewter.
I am doing the same thing right now with some ogre units. The blisters were 12 models per blister and I ended up with 3 blisters of them after some auctions so I made 4 units at 3 models per stand.
This just reminded me that I do have another blister pack of harpies to paint up that I got on ebay a while back as the ogres are taking longer to paint up as I would have liked, I wonder if it will have 12 or 9 models in it
