diorama "Spelunking at Midnight" Diorama featuring converted Lanell, Female Rogue and Arthrand Nightblade, Elf Ranger

[Peithetairos]

Finally the spelunking diorama is finished (WIP thread).

 

I am quite happy with the OSL, even though it was a struggle at times and obviously there is always room for improvement.

The miniatures are two converted  Bones Miniatures using Statuesque Miniatures heads and weapon swaps from the bitz box. The top level miniature was converted from 77049 Arthrand Nightblade, Elf Ranger and the character in the cave from 77387 Lanell, Female Rogue.

 

The base is entirely scratch built, only the fern is an awesome photo etch kit by Chichkovshop and the foliage by MiniNatur.

 

The initial lighting sketch was applied by airbrush, using violet, orange and turquoise. I then went back in by brush and added more contrast with yellows, greens and blues.

 

I don't think anyone tried to depict fireflies so far, at least to my knowledge. They are made of paper and Greenstuff.

 

So, how do you like my second OSL attempt? What could I improve with the next one, which parts do you like best?

 

[Glitterwolf]

Awesome!

Great work!

[Iridil]

Inspiration - very convincing OSL and the night color scheme is spot on - and the base - fantastic! nice touch with the firefly/glow insect

[Peithetairos]

9 hours ago, Glitterwolf said:

Awesome!

Great work!

 

Thank you @Glitterwolf Much appreciated.

 

 

2 hours ago, Iridil said:

Inspiration - very convincing OSL and the night color scheme is spot on - and the base - fantastic! nice touch with the firefly/glow insect

 

Thank you @Iridil. The OSL made my brain melt in some areas, but the frontal perspective - the most important one I would argue - worked out fine. In the future I would try to make the night areas a tad darker or emphasise the moonlight more. As it stands it looks ok and doesn't detract from the character in the cave, the true star of this vignette. 

 

The fireflies are something I will revisit in the future. I could see an entire scene where a central character is surrounded by fireflies illuminating her/him. 

[Metalchaos]

Awesome work @Peithetairos! As I mentionned on Facebook, I really like the composition of your diorama.

The osl effect is very well done and the fireflies add a nice touch of magic. The conversions you did on both models are also amazing. 👍

[Chaoswolf]

That is incredibly cool! 

[Peithetairos]

12 hours ago, Metalchaos said:

Awesome work @Peithetairos! As I mentionned on Facebook, I really like the composition of your diorama.

The osl effect is very well done and the fireflies add a nice touch of magic. The conversions you did on both models are also amazing. 👍

 

Thanks again @Metalchaos ! I always feel the original Bones are great for conversions. Cheap and cheerful. 

 

 

12 hours ago, Chaoswolf said:

That is incredibly cool! 

 

Thank you @Chaoswolf

[H.C.]

WOW!! That looks amazing! 

[Fencig]

it takes guts to envision something like this and real skill to pull it off

 

how did you make the firefly hover?

[Guyra]

That's some amazing stuff right there! 😄

[Peithetairos]

22 hours ago, H.C. said:

WOW!! That looks amazing! 

 

Thanks! I would say my best work yet.

 

 

19 hours ago, Fencig said:

it takes guts to envision something like this and real skill to pull it off

 

how did you make the firefly hover?

 

High praise! Thank you. It was less straightforward than it looks. Lots of trial and error. I will feature a longer how-to on my blog. The firefly is attached to some nylon string that partly disappears in the foliage. I removed a few light reflections of the string in Affinity Photo to sell the illusion even more. 

 

3 hours ago, Guyra said:

That's some amazing stuff right there! 😄

 

Thank you! Really happy that the piece is so well received!

[DrRadium]

On a 1-10 scale, 10 being the best, I'd give this one about a 14.  The modeling and lighting effects blow me away.

[Grand Slam]

Yeah...this is as good as it gets for my mini scale dioramas. A+

[Poilu_1914]

Totally agree with everyone, wow!!!

[Rigel]

Truly superb lighting and composition.