The Making of a 300 Diorama; Part 1 Design, Layout and Frame

This is part of of a tutorial on how to build a medium sized diorama. The scene for this diorama is the Spartan Warrior Battle of Thermopylae. The diorama is two feet by three feet and wired for lighting and sound. This episode of the tutorial shows you the concepts of paper design and building templates then designing and building the 3dimensional structure.
Lots more fun stuff on my website at:
http://www.stormthecastle.com

And the next installment of this tutorial coming real soon. Where I will cast the plaster shell creating the terrain.

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• diorama
• spartan
• thermopylae
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[soldaatjhu]

can you do something futeristic, like something like halo or likely?

[epicfantasy]

@soldaatjhu The medieval villlage is my next diorama but wouldn't a halo diorama be cool? I was thinking about a warcraft diorama too.

[taiko729]

can you do a tutorial for a ww1 diorama

[epicfantasy]

@taiko729 thanks, great idea. I might do a ww1 tutorial. I do have some nice ww1 tutorials on my website though. Its usually all about the trench warfare!

[moirproductions]

I've got a question. My dad and I are building a window display diorama for his store. Its a baseball game from the 1890's, I've found some kids playing ball from the right era, but we'd like some adults. Any advice would be great.

[epicfantasy]

Sounds like a great project. Kind of got me stumped though. I am not sure where to get that kind of figure. Sorry

[epicfantasy]

lol! You are right. Sparta wouldn't spare me the expense of 300 soldiers. I even asked the oracle and she said no!

[suirllinddracus]

lol, thats not 300... thats 12... lol

[ska84life101]

epicfantasy i have a question me and my dad have won a championship for making really good battle of pearl harbor dioramabut now this like srategy store wants us to make a lord of the rings display and u know in the second movie how they have the huge battle at the good guys castle well they want us to build that battle scene and they're offering us 10,000 dollars.

any advice u have.

[soldaatjhu]

@epicfantasy yea do you know the Halo 3 Diorama? it was like 7 feet by 7 feet or something it was massive!

[taiko729]

@epicfantasy i know. i wanna make one because it would be so chaotic

[Greenjah81]

very cool! I do 1/35 scale though, so technically that would mean that the part of the diorama has to be bigger a bit.

[lemmontree1]

only cardboard? why not use wood?

[retroanteater]

can you please make a world war two village rest scene because thats what im working on at the moment