User:Warhammer Studios/Set-diorama techniques



While I am not the leading authority on diorama building, I have learned through my building of them, that balancing realism with available space is a delicate buisness.

What I mean is (for example) when I built my bombed out house diorama in 1/6 scale, I quickly learned that your available space gets eaten up rather quickly when adding the debris field. Building the corner of a blown up house was easy; making the debris seem realistic on the 24"x24" base wasn't.

So I guess no matter what you're building in 1/6 scale, space is like gold and you have to plan carefully; especially when building a structure like a house, a bunker, or even a city street corner. When you do the math, whatever youre trying to duplicate from real life can be bigger than you think in 1/6 scale. The clincher is in the details, if you try to cram too much into the limited space you have you'll take away from the realism.

I've seen a lot of really cool dioramas in 1/6 scale, and they are all enormous. That is what draws me to them, I love the scale, I love the hugeness of them. If I could get away with it, I would have an entire town in my yard. Have fun with it! I hope my two cents was helpful