The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Creative Engineering => Dioramas => Topic started by: CustomCreator on June 08, 2011, 11:08:04 AM
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Sorry they aren't Star Wars related :-\ but if there is one thing about dioramas, is they stretch through all genres, and things can be learned from each style/scale.
If you've been around the custom world for a while, chances are you have seen most of these. If you haven't, then enjoy!
Alleyway
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00001-3.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00002-3.jpg)
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(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00004-2.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00005-3.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00006-5.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00008-4.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00011-2.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00012-3.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00013.jpg)
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Sorry the lighting kind of stinks on these:
TMNT Sewer
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4488.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4489.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4490.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4492.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4494.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4495.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4500.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4501.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4505.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4510.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4511.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4514.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4516.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_4517.jpg)
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My first full size diorama, The "gothic" diorama
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00029.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/DSC00033.jpg)
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(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/Dsc00041-2.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c7/reptileink/Dsc00043.jpg)
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Sigma 6 Warehouse office
As you will be able to see, I can easily change this from a Joe "office" to a Cobra "office" by replacing a couple of accessories and turning the crate around. That way, I can use it for pictures of both sides.
COBRA STYLE
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3162.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3163.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3164.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3168.jpg)
I keep the accessories in one of the "55 gallon drums"
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3175.jpg)
JOE STYLE
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3199.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3200.jpg)
RANDOM SHOTS
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3166.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3169.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3172.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3174.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3179.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3186.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3188.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3189.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3191.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3201.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3184.jpg)
FOR SCALE
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3194.jpg)
NIGHT SHOT
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3178.jpg)
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WOW! those are simply amazing, some of the images look lifesize!
Obviously I'd love to see you create something Star Wars/Scifi related and hopefully if you stick around you will turn your talents to the genre...
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holy smoke, those dios are mind-blowing, like the real thing :o :o
superb skills, bro!
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wow man great amazing work, good job
were you get the 55 drums?
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I really like that back ally set, looks very movie set like!
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Mate amazing dio's and the details you have added are excellent well done indeed.
Ron
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Uh, Wow!
Yepper I am with Jules, I would love to see what you could do with a SW dio, but these are fantastic.
That back alley looks real and that gothic set would be good to use with so many lines! I could see lucasclones using that for some of his Star Wars zombies.
Great stuff on the front page.
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Color me very impressed! Those look fantastic and very well executed. Your details make them very complete and real looking. Those shots of the alley dio had me convinced that I was looking at a photo of a real-live location.
How did you get started building dioramas?
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CC, glad you made your way to the yards old friend. I figured I knew who this was from GTG Customs. We were almost the only 2 trying to keep the site active last year. You know I am a huge fan of your work and glad to see it on display here. I know you don't do SW customs and that is fine! We love customs of all types here so make yourself at home and post some of your other lines and Sigma Six customs, thay are mind blowers as are your dios. You are a very tallented guy and there is a lot we could learn from you.
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OOOOMMMMGGGGG That is so so awesome dude
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How did you get started building dioramas?
Wow, thanks everyone for your nice comments ;)
Not sure when I got started building dioramas. Actually, that's not true...lol. The first dio I built was for a co-workers nephew for Christmas probably 8 years ago?? It was this:
(http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3968/dsc000319rh.jpg)
@damonsfast: They came from some slime toy that was out a while back: http://www.tintoyarcade.com/products/Black-Barrel-O-Slime-Texas-Tea-Oil-Drum.html
Here is another commission job I did for a guy over on the Spawn Boards. He wanted a Sigma 6 Sub-Zero, but I thought it needed a base, so I came up with this:
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3458.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3455.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3453.jpg)
FROSTY!
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3454.jpg)
BASE:
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3462.jpg)
Wait, it lights up??
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3467.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_3464.jpg)
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Wow those are most impressive. Well done!
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OMG! Your dios are so realistic. Words cannot describe.
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damn when i saw the first few pictures i was like why are you showing us an alley... and then i suddenly realised these are dioramas.. how more real can it get!
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damn when i saw the first few pictures i was like why are you showing us an alley... and then i suddenly realised these are dioramas.. how more real can it get!
Not that I need validation, but comments like that make it all worth while.....thanks!
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damn when i saw the first few pictures i was like why are you showing us an alley... and then i suddenly realised these are dioramas.. how more real can it get!
It's true. Doing something from the real world, and getting it perfect, as you have, is incredibly difficult. We've all seen an alley in real life, so can spot anything that doesn't ring true immediately. Fantasy is a much more forgiving mistress! Are you planning on tackling a set from the Star wars universe? Perhaps an alley on Coruscant, or Tatooine?
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To be quite honest, I am not much of a Star Wars guy :o
I mean, I like the movies just fine, but don't see myself doing many(if any) SW dioramas just yet.
I think it's the opposite Droidworld. I don't know enough about SW to make something and not have it be dissected by true fans..lol.
I do have a snap together At-St waiting to be built, and I plan on making a small foresty base for it, but that's about as far I would go I think.
Who knows though, never say never right?
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Made this base for a Hot Toys Iron Man I bashed
Base
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_1217.jpg)
The Iron Man in question:
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_1231.jpg)
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Simple but effective. I am starting to think that you must have a ton of these that you have built.
Have you ever done any ww2 or real world military dioramas? Your work reminds me of stuff that the 1/35th scale military modelers do.
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Mate the IM base is excellent.
Ron
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Simple but effective. I am starting to think that you must have a ton of these that you have built.
Have you ever done any ww2 or real world military dioramas? Your work reminds me of stuff that the 1/35th scale military modelers do.
Sadly, that's about all I have. I have a new diorama in the works, but I have stalled on it after opening the web store, and just life itself. It's a diorama from the video Sober by Tool.
Google "Sober Video" if you want to check it out.
This will be a bit of an amalgam of a couple scenes, as he's in different rooms throughout the video. This room will feature the table, chair, hole in floor, and "meat through pipe" scenes.
Here is the start:
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_1611.jpg)
(http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww189/CustomCreator2009/IMG_1612.jpg)
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This is just awesome and why I love your work. You do some odscure work that no one else thinks of. Just great ideas combined with flawless artistry. I love tool and this video so I can't wait to see what will develope here.
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While I wish I could take full credit for the idea, I cannot.
Someone over on Fwoosh did one, and actually made the little guy for me. His was a bit different though.
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My brain is exploding from how rad these are. Do you have a blog that you talk about your process on? I'm fascinated!
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My brain is exploding from how rad these are. Do you have a blog that you talk about your process on? I'm fascinated!
I don't. I started building dioramas before blogs were popular...lol. I have created build threads, but I made these so long ago, that they have probably been pruned by now.