diff --git a/radiant/mainframe.cpp b/radiant/mainframe.cpp
index 959e6dfe..3d94b5d4 100644
--- a/radiant/mainframe.cpp
+++ b/radiant/mainframe.cpp
@@ -3060,8 +3060,7 @@ void RefreshModelSkin( GSList **pModels, entitymodel_t *model ){
 #endif
 
 		// and also keeping it so we have an actual count of empty models
-		// jdolan: FIXME uhm, shouldn't we track the return value from this append?
-		g_slist_append( *pModels, model );
+		*pModels = g_slist_append( *pModels, model );
 		return;
 	}
 	// do we have this model already?