INSPIRING STAR WARS DIORAMA

It's time for another Diorama of the Day video. I came across this amazing piece a couple of days ago and just instantly knew I had to make another video in the series.

This piece, a Dagobah diorama, was created by Michael Fichtenmayer of Fichtenfoo.com and I must say that I'm truly impressed. The scene is set in 48th scale and it took Michael, off and on, about 5 months to complete the diorama. It's great to see the mood of the scene is captured in fine details.

Great job, Michael. I hope to see more of your artwork in the future.

"Abandoned Refuge" - Diorama of the Day

by Kasper Fischer

This incredible AT-AT were build for a contest at starshipmodeler.com and has later been sold to a private collector in Texas. The price is unknown but it certainly wasn't cheap. The packaging of the diorama took over two full days and I bet they were pretty nervous during the transport.

The diorama is named "Abandoned Refuge" is in 1:32 scale and was created by Dimitri Kaliviotis. 

SF3D Krote-Gina

By Francis Lee



Model:
Nitto 1/20 SF3D Krote

I built up this kit in around 1990 summer, it is a great kit that the details and metal parts are very well made. I was sad while I was making it because there was no sign of the company Nitto reform so all SF3D fans were upset that time, not until 5 or 6 years ago, Hasagawa relaunched few of them and recently the company Wave brought all the moulds. Wave is remarket the series with new name "Ma.K."now. One thing remain unchange is the prices. They are very expensive!

I repaint this model 3 years ago, after all these years I lost the original machine gun so I remake another one (maxim machine gun cross over with a robot).

Video of this model:

The Hand That Betrayed Her - Diorama of the Day

by Paul Keefe

Brave young Czeslawa, the star of this diorama. She is wearing the uniform of today's Polish Army. Her gloved left hand holds a magnetic anti-tank mine, based on the design of those used be Germany during the Second World War.

This perspective illustrates the triangle made up of the Uberkrote's belly mounted camera, Czeslawa's (ungloved) right hand (the hand that betrayed her), and the expression on her face. 

In 1958 the driverless scout vehicle Uberkrote by the Kaiser's Wanderung Panzer Werke, Spandau pl, was recognized as a standard weapon of the Imperial German Forces. Assigned primarily to the reconnaissance squadrons of panzer formations it's most noteable deployment was with the 22 Luftlande Brigade during the boarder clashes with the Polish Republic in the early 1960s. Many were lost on the Oder R. front, falling victim to the elite hunter/killer infantry teams of the Polish Defense Force. 

It has since been withdrawn from front line service.

SF3D in Space

By Francis Lee

Model:

Wave Coop. 1/20 Ma.K. Fliege

Background:

I know a lot of facts because I have always been a big fan of Ma.K. or SF3D as the series used to be called. The story and all robots were designed by a modeller Mr. Kow Yokoyama from Japan. He was born in 1956 and studied painting and illustration at the university. Kow was very inspired by the Stars War movies and started to create his own models. His "SF3D" works was first published(1983), in a magazine call "Hobby Japan". I was a reader of this magazines and I love his designs a lot.

Video of this model:

Ma.K. Melusine - Diorama of the Day

by Kasper Fischer

SF3D was a Sci Fi plastic model series which ran during the mid 1980s. The series was created by artist Kow Yokoyama with Kunitaka Imai and Hiroshi Ichimura. SF3D was introduced in the Hobby Japan Magazine as a special monthly installment of scratch built models. Nitto, a small Japanese company picked up the rights to make plastic kits of Kow's designs. The models produced were very high quality with crisp molding, fine details and they included copper rod, brass tube, spring coils, and photo-etched parts. They were one of the first multimedia kits produced. The series ended after a few years. In 1998, the series was reintroduced by Nitto and Kow under the new name Maschinen Krieger Zbv 3000. Or simply MaK.

This diorama was created by Jan(MrMax) from Denmark and posted on armorama.com.

Wrecked Warhammer - Diorama of the day

by Kasper Fischer

This Tau Devilfish diorama by Bigred is really something else. As always I'm fascinated by the decay of machines and the beauty of rust and this Devilfish has deferentially seen better days. It's not often I seen creative use of Warhammer models by model builders so this is really refreshing. 

If you want to see more pictures of the diorama, please click this link.

Star Wars Sandcrawler - Diorama of the Day

by Kasper Fischer

Nicely done mate! This Sandcrawler is a Randy Cooper kit and was built by Chris Kelley. The diorama background also looks fantastic and the lighting really brings it all to life. I have been told this model actually looks way better than the original studio model made for the old Star Wars movie, A New Hope.

The pictures was originally posted on ModelerMagic.com and if you are into Sci-Fi modelling, you should really check out the website. There's a lot of beautiful models on display in their gallery.

 

T.A.C.C. - Diorama of the Day

by Paul Keefe

Kasper asked me if I wanted to share some of my work on Modellours Workshop. I have been digging in the crates and found a few dioramas for you guys. The first will be T.A.C.C. Trooper. It's a 75mm sci fi original sculpture that I made twenty two years ago. No molds were ever made of it, there are no copies. It was one of my first sculptures and remains one of my favorites. T.A.C.C. stands for Titan Amphibious Calvary Corps. As the name suggests the scene takes place on Titan, in one of it's ammonia seas. My design for 'Puff the bio-mechanical dragon' was obviously inspired by the works of H.R. Giger. The rider (Jackie?) is female, mostly because I love sculpting females. I find the anatomical research to be most enjoyable. There will be three photos of this. Note- Puff and Jacky were characters in the Peter, Paul and Mary song ''Puff the Magic Dragon". It's from the 1960's so many people today may never had heard it, so my references to it may be meaningless, or at the very least obscure.

Machine Krieger gustav down HD

SF3D was a Sci Fi plastic model series which ran during the mid 1980s. The series was created by artist Kow Yokoyama with Kunitaka Imai and Hiroshi Ichimura. SF3D was introduced in the Hobby Japan Magazine as a special monthly installment of scratch built models. Nitto, a small Japanese company picked up the rights to make plastic kits of Kow's designs. The models produced were very high quality with crisp molding, fine details and they included copper rod, brass tube, spring coils, and photo-etched parts. They were one of the first multimedia kits produced. The series ended after a few years. In 1998, the series was reintroduced by Nitto and Kow under the new name Maschinen Krieger Zbv 3000. Or simply MaK.

Halo 3 - Making Of the 'Believe' Diorama

The official "making of" video that complements the stunning "Believe" diorama spot.