Topic: Luke Sprywalker Dioramas Updated 2-6 Han in carbonite display!

[ShamanLogRay]

Great work! Love the colours! Very clever all the little cast details, fruit etc! Loads of work obviously went into this! How will you do the floor? Sand in a baking tray? Fine grain sand paper? Or more likely something more ingenious, cos sand can make a real mess! Lol!

[Luke Sprywalker]

Thanks guys and great to hear from you Ron. Thanks so much your words mean a lot as you are the master of Indy customs. SLR, glad you are enjoying my little set up. Yes, the small details are my favorite part. I am still working on a few more for this scene. I have a roll of griptape I will apply to a 1/4 inch thick MDF base and paint tan. I hope to keep it simple as this space will change over time. If it doesn't look good enough I will just add some glue and sand over the griptape. I will add some pics here soon of a few other pieces for this one and another project.

[IMPURGE]

hey Spry, what are those lil square deals. those are awesome i see great potential for my own use.

[Luke Sprywalker]

Thanks and yes the long odd shaped building blocks are so fun to work with and look great. I can't remember the name but someone on fb knew what they were and told me the name. I need to find the pic they commented on and I will let you know. They have a web site to order from but I found mine at a thrift store.

[Luke Sprywalker]

Well, time to dig this thread out of the 3rd page of Diorama post. So, I have caved on the 6 inch line I said I would not buy and am cherry picking the line for figures I want to make displays for. I started with a Cantina booth shadow box as I was repainting figures and ran into a few snags. It is really heavy! I have rebuilt it in styrofoam and learned a lesson after some experimenting so I am still modifying it. I also sculpted chairs for the scene and have now cast 4 of them with great success.




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While I was waiting on casting material to arrive I was invited to show my work in a sci-fi art show locally. The display space is pretty small so I need some small dioramas to display my figures. I decided the "Ron Hemble style" displays were the way to go. So I started another diorama with several scratch built parts seen below in the pics.



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[Luke Sprywalker]

Full reveal.



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[Spookymufu]

wow, that looks great! you and Ron make great vignettes, just awesome and I love that Gonk!

[hemble]

The cantina chairs look execellent mate but WOW the Sandy dio is just brillant work indeed bro you will knock em dead with this.

Ron

[Tamer]

I like this a good bit. Off to share and hopefully I can put to words how awesome I think this is. And to think you were not going to get into the six inch line up.

[JediMerc]

Looks fantastic!  I'm enjoying these Tattooine dios you've put together recently, including the scratch built cantina alcove you have going.  The GNK droid turned out pretty nice!

[Tamer]

I got back in here to just view this and that GNK again this morning. This looks like it walked right off the movie set.

Man, I hope they make some Battle of Hoth 6 inchers. If they do I would like to formall request a commission along these same lines as this mini-dio. I think it is just a great way to show off the characters.

[Sjefke]

I love your re-purposing of plastic junk.  t's masterful. 
Lesson:  Save every random piece of oddly shaped plastic.
You've justified my saving similar greebles.  Thanks.  I'd better start using them now.

[FialaFernbrugg]

That is a fantastic Tattooine dio.
I love all the details (especially the Gonk)

[krztfr]

So where's the custom dio? I only see a screen cap from the movie. 

[Luke Sprywalker]

Thanks so much guys! I worked hard on this set up and am very proud of it. Thanks for the inspiration Ron!