Topic: Materials for Dioramas: Finding crates, parts and miscellaneous stuff...

[Starchaser]

Those are really cool images, Philipp. Thanks for sharing.

[Darth More]

Thanks Jeff! The work of Industrial Light & Magic takes my breath ever so often as well.

[Darth More]

Sometimes you find some neat decoration for your themed room or even dioramas at discount stores. TK MAXX gave me some inspiration for Felucia today, but some price tags are obvious rip-offs. I don't recommend to buy picture frames at TK MAXX. The ones I found were the cheapest for 5,99€ still. Drug stores sell better ones for half the price.





Really liked that metal effect and pattern on this bowl. Looks like a fossil from Tatooine.

With more and more people coming from Africa and buying at TK MAXX, it looks like they adapted their assortment with appealing decoration, too.

[JDeck]

Michael's has 60% off summer decor. They had these Miniature potted plants. Jungle plants like monstara and arrow leaf get pretty big depending on sunlight and humidity, so they are in scale. The small ones were $1.99- 60%, so i got a few.  I ended up going to another Michael's down the road for more. Usually I use artificial aquarium/terrarium plants, but they're hard to get in the right scale. 

The palms, monstaras and big leaf philodendrons would be perfect for a Yavin IV diorama especially since those plants are native to central/south America where Yavin was filmed.

[JDeck]

Since I have a whole shoebox of different jungle specific plants, I made some jungle floor soil/litter, like I did with my Endor mix. This one was pretty simple. I used some chunky (alot of bark) potting soil somewhare between potting soil and orchid mix, without perlite (little white balls), crumbled some dead leaves, dried sphagnum moss, some sand broken sticks, dried roots and tea bags. The bag varies from fine to chunky. I can now make modular jungle terrain pieces like I did with Endor. I need to make some jungle tree trunks.

[Starchaser]

Nice! Jungle trees could be interesting. Great heads up on the Michael's sale. Nice to see you 🙂