Dune Themed 40k: Sandworm

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Dune Themed 40K: Sand Worm

Even though this isn't the largest model I'm building for this army, for me this is the centerpiece model of this army. 


I sculpted the entire worm itself out of Super Sculpy. 


Filling the mouth with the "teeth" was extremely painstaking. Rolling bits of Sculpy out one at a time to a tapered edge and layering it into the mouth working from the center out. I would guess that this step took me at least 8 hours of active time working on it. 


The end result of all those "teeth". 


I decided to run the Sandworm as a Land Raider, as it was similar-ish in size.


Having the Sandworm breaking through the surface of the ground was important to me, to illustrate that the whole worm is much larger than the part breaching through the table. 


Since it was to be a Landraider I added some of my Fremen Troops to represent the guns that would be on the Land Raider. And added hooks/poles that they use in the book to grab on to the worm to ride them. 


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