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Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name





Hello all!


I thought I would share my Kitbashed/scratch built mastodon I've been working on for over a year now for my Thousand sons Legion.



The Lore behind my faction and this vehicle if you're interested:

30k thousand sons once it's done. The Project is officially called "The Last Library"

They are sentinels and Scholars of the Grand Library of Prospero and are tasked with guarding the vast repository of knowledge of the occult and the enlightened.

During the burning or prospero once they knew they could no longer hold the library they commandeered a relic Mastodon Assault vehicle in order to basically save as much as they could. Piling it into this monstrous vehicle and then breaking out from the attacking space wolves grinding them under the treads of the mobile fortress and managing to make it off world.

Moving into 40k the fortress serves as a mobile library, the last surviving repository guarded by the few wayward scholars left standing...

I intend to decorate the inside with lots of books and stuff as well as an upper level to serve as an inner sanctum.

Pretty much this thing is going to be a moving multi level terrain piece models can fight and move inside of.























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I gave up putting more pictures in. Here's a whole album instead. It's also on my gallery profile.


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https://imgur.com/a/iRToluS

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Made in ca
Stormin' Stompa






Ottawa, ON

My goodness, and I thought the mastodon was big enough already!

I think I've seen this floating around facebook once or twice. Quite the ambitious project with an interesting story behind it. I like the idea of a mobile terrain piece; you could certainly have some interesting games around it.

Ask yourself: have you rated a gallery image today? 
   
Made in jp
Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot






Really gorgeous modelling work - super impressive! I love the sheer size of this monster, can't wait to see it filled with bookcases and heretics! You've done a genuinely jaw-dropping job. Love it!
   
Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name





Thanks for the feedback I look forwards to finishing this hopefully before the end of August.
   
Made in us
Grumpy Longbeard






WWWoooooaaaa! noway
Epic to the max!

I know how these big projects can go.
Much encouragement and perseverance for your efforts!
Emperor shall suffer no failure!

 
   
Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name





Two leman russes, two land raiders. Parts from a baneblade, parts from a falcion tank. Parts from primaris repulsors and impulsors. Necromunda zone mortalis terrain. Pieces from a bastion kit. Several bits from a land raider. FW land raider extra armour. Skyreaper assault array bits. Parts from a space wolves flyer. 2 turret caps from shadowsword tanks. Lots of space marine rhino bits. Forge world tank treads. Sicaran Lascannon sponsons. Land raider redeemer heavy flamerstorm cannons.

Those are the bits I've used off the top of my head so far


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Doing a test of my piston system for the doors atm.






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Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name






Finished the pistons so they are now functional.

















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Made in gb
Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot






London

This thing is a beast! Thanks for sharing - will be awesome to see this come together and then with some paint on there!



Relapse wrote:
Baron, don't forget to talk about the SEALs and Marines you habitually beat up on 2 and 3 at a time, as you PM'd me about.
nareik wrote:
Perhaps it is a lube issue, seems obvious now.
 
   
Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name





Anyone interested this is what this thing looked like 6 months ago...

   
Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name





Just working on the final small details at the moment such as riveting...











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Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name






LED dryfit test












   
Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut





Nottingham

Very impressive so far. Looking forward to seeing it with some paint on.

Have a look at my P&M blog - currently working on Sons of Horus

Have a look at my 3d Printed Mierce Miniatures

Previous projects
30k Iron Warriors (11k+)
Full first company Crimson Fists
Zone Mortalis (unfinished)
Classic high elf bloodbowl team 
   
Made in us
Grumpy Longbeard






Duuuude!
Cant wait to see it painted!

 
   
Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name





I finished the building stage finally, undercoated it tonight, took two and cans of paint to finish. But it's done now.

Now comes to actually painting it, but I feel this is a huge milestone as it is and helps bring it all together especially seeing how it has taken me over a year to get to this point.









































Now, PAINTED!











   
Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name





After fixing my broken airbrush I finally got to put down my Ruby red coat.

Here's a link to the album if you haven't seen it already.



Thousand sons Mastodon WIP https://imgur.com/a/iRToluS






   
Made in us
Grumpy Longbeard






Watching Epicness to the Max come to life!

 
   
Made in us
Ancient Venerable Dreadnought




San Jose, CA

It looks great. I just had shown it to my 6yo & 3yo nephews and they asked why havent built one of them? ...thanks a dozen, donuts!

Nothing like being shamed into spending $ on one by a bunch of snot-nosed punks.
   
Made in gb
Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot






London

Exciting to see some paint on the thing. Truly a beast, and nice to see a 'non-standard' Mastodon out in the wild, as this is what I seem to remember reading in one of the 1 billion Horus Heresy books.

Are there any updates on this marvellous creation?

Thanks for sharing



Relapse wrote:
Baron, don't forget to talk about the SEALs and Marines you habitually beat up on 2 and 3 at a time, as you PM'd me about.
nareik wrote:
Perhaps it is a lube issue, seems obvious now.
 
   
Made in nz
Fresh-Faced New User




Love the LED work on the inside and the entire project overall. Great work!
   
Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name





Hello sorry for going off the grid. Here's an update though.







   
Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name





Some more progress





   
Made in us
Trigger-Happy Baal Predator Pilot





Wisconsin

gak man, that's amazing!

   
Made in gb
Changing Our Legion's Name





Hey thanks man


I'm so close to this being done now I can almost taste it...















   
Made in us
Utilizing Careful Highlighting





Nice! The weathering helps it pop nicely. A very fun project to watch be built!
   
 
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