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Compared to the myriad of airships deployed by the Last Legion, the Leviathan class are particularly crude and brutal, but effective for their intended role on the battlefield. These boxy, armored ships are designed as airborne boarding rams, intended to plow into enemy aircraft or fortifications, softening the blow with a hull-mounted thermite cannon and breaching rocket fired from a cannon below the boarding ramp. After weakening the enemy's armor, the ship barrels ahead at full speed to break through and clear a path for its boarding ramp, deploying Legion personnel within directly into the heart of the enemy's defenses. These boxy ships are no slouch in aerial combat either, able to fend off lightly-armored enemy fliers or ground troops with their bow-mounted chain guns, or employing their thermite cannons to melt poorly-armored combatants into burning sludge.

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One month of work later, and the biggest project I've ever attempted is now complete! For the keen-eyed among you, this behemoth started its life as an "Aqua Evac" playset from Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire Battle Builders series of toys, highly modified with a new coat of paint, a smokestack made from a leftover Leman Russ cannon, and a 120mm base fitted with a magnetic flight stand. Inside, it has a working spring-loaded cannon capable of firing the aforementioned breaching rocket, though I don't recommend doing so in a professional play setting. Still, it was amazing seeing a $30 toy transforming into a $120+ miniature over a period of a few weeks, and I can't wait to take it to the tabletop someday!

Description

Compared to the myriad of airships deployed by the Last Legion, the Leviathan class are particularly crude and brutal, but effective for their intended role on the battlefield. These boxy, armored ships are designed as airborne boarding rams, intended to plow into enemy aircraft or fortifications, softening the blow with a hull-mounted thermite cannon and breaching rocket fired from a cannon below the boarding ramp. After weakening the enemy's armor, the ship barrels ahead at full speed to break through and clear a path for its boarding ramp, deploying Legion personnel within directly into the heart of the enemy's defenses. These boxy ships are no slouch in aerial combat either, able to fend off lightly-armored enemy fliers or ground troops with their bow-mounted chain guns, or employing their thermite cannons to melt poorly-armored combatants into burning sludge.

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One month of work later, and the biggest project I've ever attempted is now complete! For the keen-eyed among you, this behemoth started its life as an "Aqua Evac" playset from Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire Battle Builders series of toys, highly modified with a new coat of paint, a smokestack made from a leftover Leman Russ cannon, and a 120mm base fitted with a magnetic flight stand. Inside, it has a working spring-loaded cannon capable of firing the aforementioned breaching rocket, though I don't recommend doing so in a professional play setting. Still, it was amazing seeing a $30 toy transforming into a $120+ miniature over a period of a few weeks, and I can't wait to take it to the tabletop someday!