Sci-Fi
I Built a Spaceship in 3 Easy Steps I am a huge fan of Ben at 2nd Dynasty’s work so I jumped at the chance to 3D print and build this spaceship – the Alpha Shuttle MkIV – even though I was on holiday. It’s been such a fun build and I really enjoyed how …
The Ultimate Dagobah Swamp Diorama I love the idea of swamps, dank, dismal and unknown creatures lurking just below the surface. It’s no surprise that I have wanted to model this Dagobah Swamp scene for years. I was first inspired by FichtenFoo’s Dagobah diorama (http://fichtenfoo.net/blog/tag/dagobah-diorama/) This is a summary video of the Dagobah Swamp Build …
Star Wars Beggars’ Canyon – Can you 3D print a whole Diorama? Never mind whether you were a fan of the Book of Boba Fett before or after Mando made an appearance, his test flight through Beggars’ Canyon brought back loads of iconic memories. I wanted to see if I could 3D print an entire …
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Make your own Floating Death Star This has had so many iterations from a 2nd Dynasty ship (the legs got in the way) to eventually the death star. I even fully printed and painted a pokeball by Jetto Hobby but that was just too heavy on one side to float. It is fun and I …
Model a Water Splash using UV Resin I have had a bottle of UV resin for a while and it was time to put it through its paces and model a water splash with the Master Chief riding through a resin river. I used GreenStuffWorld UV resin, plus their epoxy resin for the river and …
Halo Infinite – Exploding Warthog Diorama This has got to be one of my favourite dioramas I have made this year! With Halo Infinite coming out and Xbox/Halo’s 20th anniversary, I thought it was time to do a couple of themed dioramas and first up is a model explosion. If I had known that explosions …
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The Gladiator Mech Battle Diorama Hulk v Thor is the ultimate gladiator mech battle – who will win – Hulk’s strength or the god of thunder? It’s loosely based on Thor Ragnarok and is for the Gunpla Talk Show Singularity contest. (You can check them out on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/GunplaTalkShow). This was built using 30 minute …
Samurai Star Wars Kitbash Droid | Dojo diorama I love the Samurai Star Wars figures and having collected a few, I needed a diorama for them to live in then Boylei Hobby Time suggested a collaboration on a kitbash Star Wars droid. I knew exactly what was needed! To be honest it wasn’t much of …
Animated Spaceport Diorama with Traveller RPG spaceship This is a fully animated spaceport diorama with working cargo gantry, monorail, light up control panels, landing pad lights and flashing warning lights plus a siren when a ship is due to land. The spaceship is from a crowdfunding campaign currently running on MyMiniFactory for 2nd Dynasty. It …
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Star Wars – The Clone Wars – Final Scenes Dioramas These last two scenes of the Clone Wars are so poignant and emotional and I wanted to capture that feeling of desolation and loss in model form. With the Bad Batch coming out on Tuesday, May the Fourth, I rewatched the last series of the …