hello and welcome back to miniverse I'm Reece and today we are building a Warhammer 40 000
diorama now I watch a lot of youtube especially all the
Warhammer stuff so I thought there'd be no other series to try out some new techniques
then of course making an epic fight scene between some Necrons and the fearsome space marines
now I wanted this diorama to use some cool led filaments
which meant I had to make the base myself now having no previous handy work experience
this is actually a lot of fun and i might do this more often in the future
meanwhile, I thought it'd be a great time to go on a hunt for some natural materials
on my walk, I found a fallen tree and decided to harvest some of its sweet sweet roots
alongside roots, twigs and moss are great resources to have for your diorama collection so quickly
recap I made the base of the diorama out of some wood and I then cut out some acrylic
to the size of the diorama I wanted to add some support and function later on
now let's build some stuff I found an old primaris captain from the imperium magazine
and decided to scrape off the ultramarine logos and retrofit his shooting arm
with some green stuff to make it look more natural
after that, it was time to continue building the diorama after applying the hot glue I placed the
XPS foam onto the diorama now recently as of right now, I've stopped cutting my
XPS foam exactly to size as I find it much easier to make it that little bit bigger
and then cut around the sides with a hot wire cutter as it works so much better
so I started cutting into the foam to get a general woodland theme going on
I usually recommend planning everything you want to do beforehand but hey sometimes it's just more
fun to go out here and fix the problems when they come but trust me they'll come
now it was time to start sculpting the specific scenery I wanted
I knew I wanted a dried-up stream going through the middle of the diorama
so I manipulated the size to get smoother and more natural layout with some rocks added in
oh yeah and remember when I said that problems would come well they came the
resin mould I made didn't fit properly so I had to cut up some more foam remove bits here and
there and add a hell of a lot more milliput thankfully in the end it looked pretty good
now it's time for the basing and like can you say in person
let's fry up some dirt and make some terrain paste unlike my last Warhammer diorama link
above I didn't sift through all the dirt and left all its natural goodness to create some
more depth in the ground creating that old dried up forest feel to do this I mixed up water mod
podge and brown paint in equal quantities and started slapping it all over the diorama
remember that walk I had earlier well it's time to show the fruits of the harvest it was time to
wash and bake all the tree roots that I collected I did this twice baking at a good heat for about
an hour each time after washing them to make sure there was no filth on my precious roots
finding and placing each of the roots was actually a lot of fun in itself it was kind of like playing
a little side quest from the main game and if you think this diorama looks like a right mess well
you're right but don't worry after a good bit of spray paint it will start looking right as rain
so let's paint that space marine I chose to paint it resembling something similar
to the blood angels' colour scheme and started spraying the model white and
airbrushing all the undersides a light brown for some contrast
once it was dry I coated that bad boy in some Vallejo red ink let's give him that shiny armour
now it's time to take away that shine and coat him in some enamel brown wash
so it's time to grab some cotton wool buds and Winsor newton
and start removing all the wash from the raised surfaces now come on that's pretty satisfying
and then painted a sword a sword colour and layered up his cape to a blue
and added all the gold accessories around his armour
and in certain areas, I added more brown wash and removed it using the same technique as before
so
next I primed the diorama and started to paint but first let's talk about this intense wood
either I shook it wrong but let's be honest that's not a wood colour that's yellow so
after that kerfuffle, I whacked out some contrast paints and painted the rest of the base brown
now it's time to come up with a colour scheme for the diorama, I wanted something quite muted
maybe a bit grim dark something that doesn't have too much contrast or brightness to it
so opted to use very similar colours like beige browns greens and murky greys
and hey if you're enjoying this video let I know what you want to see me do next
so make sure to comment below and make sure to subscribe to actually see what I do next
so let's move on to the antagonist of the scene the Necrons for the Necrons i didn't want some
shiny fancy new looking robotic armour i wanted some old rustic-looking Necrons
I wanted to make it look like they've been trapped on this planet for a millennia
so let's come back to the diorama and glue
some of the models down before adding some cool led filaments
as this was my first time ever soldering I did a lot of it off camera
but this is all inspired by Boylei hobby time which I'll leave his channel down below and make sure to
watch his videos as he demonstrates it much better then I could and how to actually do these types of
led filaments but hey maybe in a future episode I'll show you more in-depth than how I did it
For the final shots of the diorama let me know what you think and I look forward to hearing it down
below in the comments make sure to subscribe and come back next time where we're going to
try and build something even cooler and better i've been Reece and i'll catch you next time