Polymorph Any Object

[Shadow_Charlatan]

How big of a statue can you make from using a Polymorph Any Object on a Wall of Iron (created by the spell of the same name)

[boring7]

Up to 100 cubic feet per caster level.

Whether you are using a Wall of Iron or a tiny little chunk of iron, because Polymorph Any Object doesn't care about size of source material except in regards to spell duration.

Going further, if you're shaping the original volume of the wall via any means (and we assume a caster level of 20 because the math has too many permutations) we get 166.7 cubic feet of Iron in any shape you want.

Moving further, the human body is (for simplicity) 3 cubic feet, so to be 166 cubic feet your statue would be 55 times the volume of a human statue, Cube-root of 55 is 3.8(ish), times 6 foot tall = a 23 foot tall statue of a humanoid of solid iron.

Then someone points out hollowing it out for more space, the square-cube law as it pertains to structural engineering, and I tell you to just use the stats from the statue of liberty and ignore the difference between copper and iron.

[Mathius]

I know the math allows more but I would go with 25 feet for solid and 50 for hollow.

If you want really big, build a scale model with 10-100 pieces and then enlarge the pieces with the spell.

Lifting should not be a problem since if you really want to to you can make a build that can lift an aircraft carrier. A heavy lift belt plus ant haul on a colossal flier should let you build it.

Or permanent shrink item on each piece with the same command word and knowledge engineering allows for pretty cool growth sequence on the colossus.

[Shadow_Charlatan]

So it would be safe to say you could polymorph a wall of iron into a statue of most huge size creatures and cast Animate Objects on it for mobility ?

[Mathius]

Yeah that would work.

[Splendor]

You could cast polymorph any object on a lump of iron and turn it into any sized statue. As long as you have a +9 for duration it's permanent, and same size is only +2.

[boring7]

You could make it colossal if you wanted to and still be permanently big, but I'm assuming your Animate Objects capabilities cap at Gargantuan.

Riding any creature has specific rules, and Animated Objects are not mount-trained, though I'm pretty sure huge or larger mounts count different for medium critters.

Of course dispel magic can take out both the animation magic AND the polymorph spell.

And animate objects is 1 round per level, so I assume you're dropping a permanency on the statue?

Finally, in terms of mobility, if I have an animated object I tend to prefer vehicles. A wagon or a boat which can fly and/or drive itself is lower-key and doesn't lend itself toward making the mistake of thinking it's any good in a fight.

But it's really a question of style.