r/dioramas

Recreating an old favorite bar from Google Streetview archives. Mainly sheet Styrene, foamboard and some bamboo skewers. The texture and colour on the wall was an absolute pain in the balls to get right… I guess fitting, given the name

I base sprayed the extruded polystyren and the spray literally ate a substaintial part of it... I guess everybody else knows this already...? How do I base coat it then pls?

Hello I’m new to miniature building, I love the craft and want to improve. but I feel blind to my mistakes because of my inability to properly critique myself. What should I do to improve and what should I be consistently doing to improve?

My first post here, idk if it's appropriate to post dioramas here but thought some people would like to see it! I have a behind-the-scenes picture of how this looks like in the process of shooting if anyone wants to see just comment :)

Witch burning inside art/horror doll called Ashley. Lit with flickering flame LEDs.

Und natürlich Licht!

Please excuse the crudeness of this but it’s just my first pass at layout and positioning.

The idea is a swamp scene at night with the ‘hero’ standing on the ruined stairs at the back in the moonlight. While one skeleton walks up an old wooden jetty and another wades through some water towards him only lit by the lantern he’s holding out..

I did create this as a rough AI image (3rd pic) to help visualise this.

Let me know what you think, ideas and advice always welcome!

I decided to finish my diorama despite a little accident with the walls... so here it is. In the end, I am quite happy with it.

I left the front intentionally empty so I can buy a Theseus mini in the future and add him there to complete the story :)

Happy to hear your thoughts!

My first 64 scale dioaroma.

Struggled some with this. My first time attempting convincing stone. Overall fairly happy with the outcome.

(Guys, I got this image from one of the top posts here)

I'm a newbie in dioramas and I would love some help in how to do diorama edges properly. Most of the tutorials I watch focus on the subject itself and rarely handle this part.

I saw some real ones and they look so smooth and clean, how do you usually do the edges? I was thinking smoothing out the XPS foam board right? But what if its several layers on top of each other? Do I like slap something on it to smoothen it like a bricklayer smoothing house walls?

I sincerely appreciate your assistance

I'm the kind of person who has bought lots of diorama products in the last year or so but doesn't actually know how to squeeze all its potential, and i find a physical book much more quick to check and easy to understand than some confusing videos. I'm really excited to start applying some of the techniques and ideas!

Every building on this project starts as a clay sculpt on the bench, gets scanned, then gets printed so we can paint proper copies of it. This one went on in that order: terracotta base over the tiles, a thin dark wash pulled down into the gaps, a dry brush of lighter orange across the ridges, and the timbers picked out last so the wood reads warmer than the roof. The little rag in shot is doing most of the work, wash on, wash mostly off. Sculpted by Johnny Fraser-Allen, who spent years at Weta Workshop before this.

Here is the second of my two newly completed King & Country figure dioramas. This one being a Battle of Normandy display.

For this one, I wanted a classic bocage country road aesthetic. I had Sheffield Miniatures do a custom mat featuring a dirt track flanked by shorter summer grass. To build up the hedgerow, I scratch-built the foliage using seafoam armatures, sealed with a PVA wash, and flocked with Green Stuff World leaf litter and bush materials to give it a dense, realistic canopy.

The figures and the Sherman fit perfectly into the scale of the lane. I paired it with a printed sky/field backdrop made with AI and added a custom engraved gold plaque in the corner to frame the scene.

Enjoy