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Any ideas on how to convert a farseer to a jetbike

chapterhouse studios makes a conversion kit for just that purpose. considering all warlocks and farseers are metal and you'd have to take a hack saw to their bodies to convert them, i'd spend a few bucks instead to get a professionally done version.

Ok, I'll consider that but are there ways I can convert with the metal models.

Pennywise wrote:Ok, I'll consider that but are there ways I can convert with the metal models.

iirc, most of the psyker in the eldar line wear skirts which the jet biker models don't have. the closest i can think of to a match might be the wood elf wild riders lower bodies. the high elf ones tend to be too armored or have chainmail that completely doesn't match the asthetic. hope that helps!

Honestly? There is no easy, good looking way. There isn't even an easy way. The easiest way would be to cut a farseer in half and stick him on a bike, but then the robes won't line up at all and it will look awful. You could do the whole "hoverdisk = bike" thing, but that isn't quite the same as a real jetbike.

The chapterhouse conversion kits are your best bet. I don't think that I would want to try to convert a farseer onto a bike myself.

You could also get a Vyper and just add a standing platform where the gunnery chair is. I have seen a few done like that and they look pretty slick.

Andrewdrexler wrote:You could also get a Vyper and just add a standing platform where the gunnery chair is.

This is what I did. Just took a Vyper and put a round platform with high guardrails around it to hold the Farseer in. No one ever complained.

If you think about it the leader of the army wouldn't drive his own jetbike... he'd get chauffeured in style!

The Green Git wrote:

Andrewdrexler wrote:You could also get a Vyper and just add a standing platform where the gunnery chair is.

This is what I did. Just took a Vyper and put a round platform with high guardrails around it to hold the Farseer in. No one ever complained.

If you think about it the leader of the army wouldn't drive his own jetbike... he'd get chauffeured in style!

sounds like it looks cool and i certainly wouldn't mind the counts as. it could get pretty expensive $$$ if you're trying to do a seer council.

Or petition GW to actually make some legs-in-robes bits instead of that stupid 'conversion kit thing they had which was essentially a saw and some poor instructions. It's surprising, given how many people want to run an all bike council, they could make some sales... but instead people have to end up doing silly things like chopping off a warlock head and just plopping it down on a jetbiker body is the one I've seen. It's the robes that are hard to deal with. Putting him on a Vyper, while aesthetically cool, also gives you a big disadvantage in TLOS since the Vyper has a much bigger base and body than a regular jetbike. It's like you have to take a disadvantage just because the conversion is so nigh impossible for the average modeller to do well.

Beh. Who cares how effective it is on the table as long as it LOOKS cool.. lol.

I saw this and am going to try something similar

There are two easy and cheap ways.

1) Farseer on a guardian weapons platform base, ideally with some shuriken catapults attached someplace.

2) Convert a regular jetbike rider of some type as much as you want/can. Shining spear boxes work well for this, as they look less "guardianey" and Dire Avenger bits are very helpful.

My personal plan is #2: shining spear body & legs + left arm + dire avenger power weapon right arm (shining spear) + dire avenger bare head + modified dire avenger crest + a paint scheme. Similar plan for warlocks, but leaving the heads alone more.


#1 gets you a guy who really really looks like a farseer and sort of looks like they are on a jetbike-ish vehicle.

#2 gets you a jetbike and a guy who looks like a farseer to the extent that you can convert, but unless you are a good sculptor he took his robes off. (on the other hand taking off one's flowing robes off before driving a jetbike around seems wise). It also works better for warlocks.

probably the best way to convert one would be to start by putting a ? in your subject...

... yeah I got that part now


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That green jetbike is fraking awesome. The freehand is so good. Who ever made that has some god damn talent. So I've decided to go with the chapter house studios kit. My friend is buying it for my birthday with a jetbike, so It's pretty awesome.

I realized you could just get the autarch on jetbike kit and and put a farseer head on.

the chapterhouse studios one is a beast of a kit so its probably your best bet.
plus its pretty simple to play about with if you want to change it and make it your own style

I went the destroy-it-yourself route. Fairly painless in fact, and she don't look terrible. My painting is worse than my modeling.







Long, flowing robes on a jetbike are just asking for trouble - so I gave her an alien version of a cavalry pelisse. I used a Farseer head, half a Dire Avenger torso (the back half), Guardian legs and left arm and a Dire Avenger right arm. Her pelisse, bust, waist and bum are green stuff.

She's not exactly flawless, but certainly tabletop quality.

(Edit - I have in fact tidied up the painting somewhat since that last photo was taken...)

Doesn't look bad. The conversion is really good.

usernamesareannoying wrote:probably the best way to convert one would be to start by putting a ? in your subject...

Oh dear oh dear.... Do we have to slap the grammar nazis again? I believe the best way to begin a sentence is with a capital letter, and not begin the sentence with the word: "probably" as it is condescending and grammatically incorrect at the same time.

Now, back on topic I really like the one GrooTheWanderer posted. There are lots of ambiguous bits and pieces that can be chop/pasted together, especially the 'bare head' bits left over from Guardian and Dire Avenger boxes, and the extraneous exarch weapons. Stick them on a regular ancient Guardian Jetbike body and give them all cool hair-dye jobs so they stand out as the Warlocks they are, exotic colored outfits, and the spare exarch weapons from the Dire Avengers you can get your witchblades and singy spears. I think it would be a pretty obvious warlock squad, while still being table-top good looking and actually fitting the TLOS signiature of a regular jetbike without having to saw through metal.

Regarding the Farseer; If I were doing this (but I'm not as I shy away from jetbikes, despite their awesomeness it just costs too much) I would take the metal head of the actual farseer from the very spiffy "farseer and warlocks" set which is a separate piece to begin with, or the single blister farseer who is almost identical, and use that. No metal saws involved this way.

@ Pennywise: Thank you kindly.

Guitardian wrote:There are lots of ambiguous bits and pieces that can be chop/pasted together,

spare exarch weapons from the Dire Avengers you can get your witchblades and singy spears.

the metal head of the actual farseer from the very spiffy "farseer and warlocks" set

or the single blister farseer who is almost identical, and use that. No metal saws involved this way.

That's exactly what I did. Then I gave the headless body to a mate to do, well, I'm not sure what exactly, but best of luck to him.

Anyhoo, even a little bit of conversion/kitbashing/green stuff will make it obvious that this isn't a regular Guardian Jetbiker - and you can always slap the Farseer rune on the bonnet of the Jetbike if you want to be sure.

I would go with what Azezel has there, nice work.

Simple and effective. The problem with most Dire Avenger/Shining Spear conversions is that the helmets don't look much like Farseers, IMHO.

That's true (the helm thing...).

I looked around and dithered for a while, but only Farseer helms look like, well, Farseers.

I do plan on using a Dire Avenger helm for my Jetbike Autarch, though. The DA helm is very martial looking, it suits a soldierly, martial figure, which an Autarch must be.