Our Little Contemptibles. By Geoff Barnes Wollen. WWI diorama

[blaster]

Hi all

Just completed this piece. Took several months and all figures weee either converted or mostly sculptured. Hope y all like it.

Rgds Victor

 

[Oda]

Ingenious concept!!!!! Well done indeed.

Oda.

 

[MoboSchreuder]

Very well done

Mobo

 

[MCPWilk]

Absolutely superb.

Mike

 

[Ferris]

Brilliant composition and detailing!

Adrian

 

[NigelR]

Wow, absolutely brilliant! Reminds me of the WWI dioramas in the AWM.

This is really top notch modelling mixed with pure artistry. Bravo!!

Could you post some photos that show more of the box/mounting and perhaps explain how you put it together? I would love to try something like this one day.....

UPDATE: Of course I forgot it was you who posted the wonderful Gericault-inspired box dioramas, so I can see from those how you approached this. Wonderful work.

 

[ometz]

How great is that? My congrats: I am not worthy.

 

[harrytheheid]

That is breathtaking Victor. Absolutely first class.

 

[Steve Ski]

Outstanding!!! That is what I call art, I love it!

 

[MattMcK.]

Fantastic work!

 

[blaster]

Hi All,

Thank you for yr kind and gracious remarks about this piece. I’m still learning and have some way to go in improving my sculpting and painting skills.

Some pics attached to show the sequence of the build. I used some commercial figs as armatures, and then sculpted the figures. I used figures of different sizes to get my visual perspectives. The smallest are 1/300 skytrex in the background.

The last pic shows the box diorama stacked against the wall on a chest.

 

[Oda]

Mighty impressive.Every single bit of it.Inspired and inspirational work.

Oda.

 

[Nap]

Mighty impressive.Every single bit of it.Inspired and inspirational work.

Oda.

Totally agree .....a pleasure to see your artwork and the way you achieve such great results


There is a Vignette & Diorama competition running here:

https://www.planetfigure.com/thread...night-31-12-22-voting-from-1-31-01-23.414984/

Thanks for sharing

Always good to see your artwork , look forward to seeing more

Happy benchtime

Nap

 

[NigelR]

Wow, thanks so much for sharing the in progress work. I think doing a box diorama is a long term goal for me but I don't know if I could ever do something as clever and effective as this.

 

[Viking Bob]

Cor blimey, that's a cracking diorama, excellent.

 

[Merryweather]

What a triumph!

 

[Dolf]

Looks more like a painting than a regular dio!
Amazing work! Congratulations!

Cheers!

Dolf

 

[blaster]

Hi All

I really appreciate all your most gracious and generous comments.

Kevin, I’ll pass on the competition as I still need more time.
Some insights- I was motivated to do a WWI diorama because I had a lot of scalelink figures lying around. I selected this ptg because I thought it would be fairly shallow - Lining up some figures to shoot into the bkgd. As it turned out, I had to use a deeper footprint to get a convincing distance. I improvised on modelling the bldgs in relief, adding cotton wool to simulate smoke and adding tiny 1/300 skytrex figs in the bkgd.

Thanks for your interests and for looking in.

Rgds Victor

 

[arj]

Brilliant composition and detailing!

Adrian

Couldn't have put it better.
Very, very well done.

Cheers,
Andrew