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So I wanted to make a customized Baron Sathonyx to lead my soon-to-be converted beast pack. Because he and the beast masters are converted from the hellion kit, I wanted to make him stand out as an HQ level character should. I took some ideas from other cool Sathonyx conversions and bashed up my own version. Be aware he is not attached to the board yet.

To convert the sky board to boss size I chopped up two extra rudders from from the ravager kit and attached them to the hellion sky board using a technique I learned a while ago; basically, you gather some plastic shavings and fine plastic dust and mix it into plastic glue to create a "slurry". You then use the slurry as a 2-in-1 adhesive gap filler. Lastly, you just sand it smooth. I find its easier and faster than using green stuff for a job like this.

The Baron himself is a kit bash of a raider hanger-on with bits shaved off and the cape is from the IoB mage shaved and filed to fit. Severed head flail, spear, and impaled skull ornaments are all from the ravager kit, I think. The arms have been chopped up and repositioned with pins and epoxy.

If you want to see more of this army as it develops, please visit my blog (see link below) and leave comments.

Happy hobbying!

It looks really nice, both the mini and the hellion conversion.

Thanks, Capamaru.

Id love to get more opinions.

I have been thinking about converting the Baron myself and extending his sky board with the Ravager fins is absolutely brilliant. Thanks for the inspiration and kudos on the great conversion!

Thanks, Darktraveller. Hope to see yours when it's completed.

I love your Baron. It is a simple but very effective way to make him stand out from the hoard of other skyboards you can/could field on the board. Sometimes I think that the "simple" conversions are the best. Dark Eldar makes it really easy to make "action" posed HQ's with the Raider/Ravager bits. I made a Duke Sliscus out of one and a Lady Malys who was doing a jump kick to a chaos space marine. I made her fan weapon out of 4-5 daggers that I glued together.

@ Lucazi: thanks

Also, I totally agree with you. The DE line has great potential. Slicus, Malys, and even Vect are possible. I'm going to check your gallery now