dioramas

My daughter asked me to bring her to the cinema to watch Spiderman Brand New Day. It was better than I thought it would…

So it happens that while waiting for my Trabant model from @akinteractive.official (I’ll dip it in the water, of course). found myself assembling bits…

Another of those green dioramas with rails!

This is my third locomotive based diorama in a row, so just one left and I will go to other things. This one is…

You know when you play a music track that you really like, you put the volume to the max and crank the bass and…

Here’s one of the dioramas I used to do 15 years ago, except it’s now 2026. It feels good to get back in real…

I fell on a picture by Evgenia Arbugaeva by chance on Instagram showing that very dog with a Christmas garland around the neck, kneeling…

One of the kinds of Dioramas I don’t like that much is the « looking at things » ones. Like you can see on that great…

I was really distraught when I realised I actually LOST my ditched Zero Diorama. I just don’t know what I did of it. I’m…

Taking in the face the stupidity of the average YouTuber or Tiktoker thanks to the high cultural level of my sons, I wouldn’t have…

That one is a 1900s version of that social media cliché « Not everyone you lose is a loss unless it’s me, then you fuck…

Thanks to those following my step by step as stories on Facebook and Instagram! The motorbike is the recent @akinteractive.official cg125. My apologies to…

I reckon my indignation with collapsing buildings increases with the proximity, and the more they’re close to my home the more I worry. So…

Baba yaga is the main sorceress of Slavic Folklore. I already did 2 Baba Yaga dioramas in the past.

I’m back with soviet era locomotives, the 2 T9114 are on the far right first row, the #TrM46 is the red one at the…

Dedicated to someone who didn’t have worthy holidays in a long time.. Plaster and resin and homemade fig. Those are roman ruins of course.…

My own take on that lame modeling cliché: the ditched plane 1/72 Tamiya Zero

This one was basically inspired by the backrooms aesthetics, I find that repetititive universe pretty cool  for a variety of reasons. I mixed that…

This is the first time I try to change the format of my boxes dioramas. i had to create the box by myself though…

The last of the series. I wanted to make another contrast between the flowery bathing suit and a very blue swimming pool. Instead of…

Using the AK Interactive Land Rover as a base.

No comment needed on that one, that’s my take on Moby Dick, more or less inspired by an illustration I found of Captain Ahab…

This one is not even taken out of my fantasy. It shows the real story of that Berlin nurse that collected that #shoebill after the zoo…

When I was doing my military service I was working near the exit of the airbase. And there was that bearded guy, a fully…

Sleepwalking straight from bed one early morning I got it on the tip of the finger, the idea of the perfect portrait for that…

My last seascape of 2023, a sort of hommage to Russian XIXth century painter Ivan Aivazovski who filled his work with seas and sinking…

The one on that scene is trapped in her own country. Since she loves Italy, it’s my way to take her there. on some…

Contrary to what I’ve been told about that one, the girl is not dead at all, she just fell from a rusty roundabout and…

The building was modelled after a factory’s courtyard in St Petersburg Russia .

I sometimes have a great deal of difficulty to understand why I did this or that diorama. I guess that special story started with…

I consider myself being rather ageless in my ideas, musical or artistic tastes, yet i don’t like 90% of what I’ve seen of street…

One row behind the fox on the far left, there sat the crow. Contrary to the other one, she was eating up the light…

This one is about living in the past and being unable to escape the future. Those are two #soviet #locomotives from the 1960s, a…

Here is a work in progress of a shadow box I’m working on. I used the same figure as the previous train diorama I…

B2B I’m still raking some 5 years old memories and here’s one I’m not too fond of because it did me a lot of…

Looking at pictures of Ukrainian refugees breaks my heart. Very egostically I guess it’s because they look and feel like my neighbours. The women…

This is one of the tanks whose heads roll all over the East. This particular diorama was inspired by a series of pictures of a one who…

This is last week’s diorama’s twin brother, almost the same colours.

This diorama is about a friend that lives in a flat near the presidential Palace in Kyiv. She had to leave pretty fast leaving…

I believe I saw enough military related stuff those past week, enough for a lifetime actually.

Another rather dreamy take on a #hplovecraft short story. Alternatively this diorama is about those grown ups who can’t get to sleep without their teddy…

This one came to me while discussing with several people about voyage and liberty. About going somewhere else terribly fast. This is a part…

This is my new Lovecraft influenced diorama. I could have added sea monsters and tentacles and those will come at some point in another…

Being an avid Lovecraft reader since my teens, I finally found an opportunity to include his mythos inside my diorama making process. Here are…

I developed a deep interest in boring films when I turned about 20. That is, not *really* boring but movies that demand you to…

That diorama has a strange story since it sort of changed yesterday evening. The whole thing started with a dream I had of my fear…

based on a real picture of a crashed Mirage III during the Yom Kippur War in 1973

Back in the days when the internet was young and my hair was brown, Elena Filatova roamed the abandoned territories of the Chernobyl exclusion…

Startoucher started in February and finished yesterday. I suppose it’s all about changing life and get another one that may be as rotten and…

Done roughly at the same time as Libertad. Less good though.

I can’t remember the name of that diorama. done after a 6 months pause during which I changed house. So it is somewhat less…

I always add that idea of people getting threatened by tombstones, since like when I was 15. 30 years later I came up with…

This must be one of the most depressive diorama I ever did. I believe Model time from Italy published the SBS

That was self imposed challenge, create a diorama in less than 8 hours on a child less Sunday. Well I managed! except for the…

Sort of inspired by the Capa picture. A bit unhappy with that one. Too wide.

This is actually one bit of the T-35 model I used for the Firebird diorama. The cormorans were homemade.

One of the very best dioramas I ever did. Article in a the Weathering Magazine special Effects issue

Featured in Abrams Squad magazine

It took me 5 years between the time I modeled the B-29 and the time someone finally accepted to print the decal of the…

Full article SBS in Air Modeler

Featured in a Water special of The Weathering Magazine

That diorama featured a portrait of Internet tycoon John McAfee and was more or less Lovecraft inspired. The horse’s skeleton was homemade. i believe…

A portrait of American politician John McCain Article and complete SBS in The Weathering Magazine

Go in life and don’t forget to eat the roses. This is what’s left of a B-24 wreckage near Manchester (UK)  , I can’t…

I can’t believe I which point I missed the dusty effect at the font of the diorama. otherwise this was my last effort with…

I was not terribly happy with that diorama. i believe the attempt to make moving thing static has its limits. Oh well, there was…

I attempted a portrait of Vladimir Putin on that one. There was my best feature ever and best article on a diorama I did…

The whole concept was to create a diorama that could capture the same vibe as Tarkosvi’s movie Stalker which is by far my favorite…

Probably my best diorama, from quite a while ago The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell   From my mother’s sleep…

The one and only! My most succesful diorma ever. It featured on the cover of the Italian magazine Model Time even though I never…

My then girlfriend was living there. Oh well. Autant en emporte le vent. The polyester resin I used for that one turned sour at…