Vairocanum's WIP

[Vairocanum]

It's been over 5 years since my last post on B&C but I wanted to come back and share some of the stuff I've been doing since then!

 

First up is a Kor'Sarro Khan on bike I converted for a friends army. The base model was the Chaplain on a bike with Khan bits grafted on. GW really should have made an actual model but this was fun to convert nonetheless.

 

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Second is this Welder Techmarine for a joint wedding gift to a friend who is a pipeline welder. I did what I could to recreate the industrial welder and pancake hood, and decided to give the model a cigarette too! In the end the model was painted in John Deere colors but I wasn't able to get pics before it was gifted.

 

 

 

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And finally this Librarian on bike was also a gift for a friend. My friend had done a similar conversion years ago but lost the model so I remade one for him when I got my hands on the same Librarian model.

 

 

 

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As for my own stuff, I have started a metal Grey Knights army and will start posting some WIP shots once I've finished up some more work. Thanks for looking!

Edited November 3 by Vairocanum
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[Heraclite]

Your conversions are gorgeous and look absolutely seemless. I aprticularly like the khan on bike

[Firedrake Cordova]

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[Firedrake Cordova]

They're nice conversions, but the biker Khan in particular is a really great conversion - once there's some paint on it to hide up the "GreenStuff green", I doubt many would be able to tell it's not a stock GW model.  

[Vairocanum]

On 11/3/2025 at 2:19 AM, Firedrake Cordova said:

They're nice conversions, but the biker Khan in particular is a really great conversion - once there's some paint on it to hide up the "GreenStuff green", I doubt many would be able to tell it's not a stock GW model.  

Thank you! I definitely think it was a missed opportunity from GW when they didn't make any "mounted" models for the White Scars but the new jet bike character is looking pretty cool! This was done for a friend so I don't have access to it anymore but I'm glad you think it blends in with stock models!

 

 

I've been seeing a ton of amazing Grey Knight conversions since they still haven't updated the model range and that got me wanting to dabble in the army as well. However for me I decided to go the route of old metal minis despite the higher costs as I've always really liked the models despite there only being a few sculpts. The price is quite restrictive tho so I'll have to chip away at this slowly when I can find good deals and acquire more minis. But I do have a decent amount of models to start so I'll be knocking stuff out whenever I can. To start here's a converted Justicar:

 

 

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Admittedly, I'm not super-familiar with the old metal Grey Knight models, but I'm struggling to see the conversion