I finished my latest diorama and finnaly managed to take some pictures of it.
The miniatures are mostly from Red-Box-Games, just the skeletons are from Mantic-Games combined with Games-Workshop skeleton heads. The Mantis-Games skulls looked way too comical for my purpose but fortunately the GW skulls fitted quite well. I only had to customize two skeletons for this diorama (the one crawling to the top and the one who got shot by two arrows) and could use all other miniatures right out of the box.
The base is build from scratch as usual. The foundation is build mostly out of multiple layers of cork and some tree barks for the rocks. The shrine is made out of styrodur and covered and skulpted with milliput. The trees are bade from some random tree branches and the small branches are made out of thin twisted wires. Some WIP pictures can be found on my facebook account „Crackpot Miniatures“ or in my Coolminiornot WIP Threat: http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?53323-Crackpots-mingle-mangle"
This project took me around 2 1/2 months, which is quite fast for me for such a big diorama. I think it is my biggest diorama so far with the most miniatures on it. As I finished just the first miniature I thought I hade made a huge mistake to paint so many miniatures for just one project, especially considering my painting speed. But I managed to paint at a rather good pace and didn't try to be too perfect on each single miniature. So every miniature has it's flaws which I would try to fix if it would be a single miniature project, but I managed to accept these minor flaws and rather prefered a quicker completion. I think it worked out well this way even though there are many spots which could be enhanced but I feared I could loose the fun and motivation on this project on the long run.
I hope I don't have to say too much on the story of this project. It should allow for different interpretations and everyone can come to a different background story what is exactly going on here.
So I hope you like my new project "Dead or Alive" and comments, suggestions and votes are welcome!
Votes:
Overview: http://www.coolminiornot.com/353071
Details: http://www.coolminiornot.com/353072
The miniatures are mostly from Red-Box-Games, just the skeletons are from Mantic-Games combined with Games-Workshop skeleton heads. The Mantis-Games skulls looked way too comical for my purpose but fortunately the GW skulls fitted quite well. I only had to customize two skeletons for this diorama (the one crawling to the top and the one who got shot by two arrows) and could use all other miniatures right out of the box.
The base is build from scratch as usual. The foundation is build mostly out of multiple layers of cork and some tree barks for the rocks. The shrine is made out of styrodur and covered and skulpted with milliput. The trees are bade from some random tree branches and the small branches are made out of thin twisted wires. Some WIP pictures can be found on my facebook account „Crackpot Miniatures“ or in my Coolminiornot WIP Threat: http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?53323-Crackpots-mingle-mangle"
This project took me around 2 1/2 months, which is quite fast for me for such a big diorama. I think it is my biggest diorama so far with the most miniatures on it. As I finished just the first miniature I thought I hade made a huge mistake to paint so many miniatures for just one project, especially considering my painting speed. But I managed to paint at a rather good pace and didn't try to be too perfect on each single miniature. So every miniature has it's flaws which I would try to fix if it would be a single miniature project, but I managed to accept these minor flaws and rather prefered a quicker completion. I think it worked out well this way even though there are many spots which could be enhanced but I feared I could loose the fun and motivation on this project on the long run.
I hope I don't have to say too much on the story of this project. It should allow for different interpretations and everyone can come to a different background story what is exactly going on here.
So I hope you like my new project "Dead or Alive" and comments, suggestions and votes are welcome!
Votes:
Overview: http://www.coolminiornot.com/353071
Details: http://www.coolminiornot.com/353072
