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Left image © Games Workshop used for illustration Instead I decided that Castellan Crowe would be an excellent stand in, with a few modifications: Grey Knight characters are somewhat few and far between, there isn't even a Brotherhood Champion model. As far as model options go, there really wasn't all that many on offer.