Thread 11437808

i know it looks huge & is taking up a lot of space. but this is the type of quality & scale i want in a Diorama.

like can u imagine that 20 in tall galactus here?

That picture is the dream, hopefully some day I'll have the space to build out a city scene like that.
For now I've just got a few building/diorama pieces made by various companies slapped together in a clusterfuck display.

Hopefully that one finook doesn't meltdown over me having the neca building like he does with that other guy on here.

>>11438095
i think it’s 3D printed and painted well. i saw it on tik tok. I saw cerebro, kang’s throne & other stuff. it’s not just city stuff

U see that water tower? It has peg holes for those arms so that u can attach and get some flying/jumping poses. weird how big companies don’t do this.

>>11437808 (OP)
>>11438149
That's fucking amazing. I would love for Hasbro or someone to just make modular city buildings that are just sections of plastic walls that can be assembled together and then taken apart to be packed flat. Then have separate rooftop sections if you just want to make a display for that. I would buy so many.

>>11438267
yeah I really thought neca was onto something with the street scene diorama, but then they did nothing with it but repaint the same building and make more ninja turtle slop.

I know there's stuff like the OP pic available, but it's also like $500 plus shipping, if one of these big companies made these it'd be like half that price. I know people have asked for diorama pieces before, so what's the hold up? Hasbro for example has never even tried, so they can't say "our data says it won't sell" or some other excuse.

>>11437808 (OP)
I really like Palisades muppet dioramas, but they’re pretty pricey nowadays. There’s a lot of dioramas on Etsy etc in the 6 inch scale, but they’re very expensive, too. I’d say dollhouse stuff works okay, but it’s usually kind of a Victorian aesthetic with iffy furniture which isn’t always what you want or very modern/well made and thus just as pricey as everything else.

There’s definitely a good niche that would generate money for mass produced clip together action figure diorama kits sold like gunpla or 30MS, kinda surprised Japan doesn’t really have them.

>>11438300
>ninja turtle slop.
>NOOOO STOP MAKING THE THING THAT MAKES MONEY!

>>11438149
thats so cool, imagine all the swinging poses you can do with that dio, fuck my life sucks.

>>11438726
Go yank your cock through your ass, I don't mean they need to stop making turtles stuff, just that they should make more generic things in addition.
The first release of the street scene building was an exclusive turtles release, then they made the generic version, surely they can find a way to make like a generic sewer scene with the other dioramas they've made.

>>11438382
Yeah, having just got into toys, I've finally started looking for diorama/set pieces and stuff and quickly found what you described to my shock
I wouldn't have thought that stuff like a some background walls and tables and shit would be so much more than the highly detailed and articulated figures you can get.

>>11437808 (OP)
Having a dedicated hobby room with a miniature city in it would be pretty nice.

>>11437808 (OP)
I"m actually trying to make some 1/12 scale buildings myself, but sadly, the place I'm living rn needs some serious renovation, so before I can finish miniature buildings I'm forced to finish the real one first. So this project is paused for a while, once hobby room is finished, I'll do an entire scene.

>>11440828
Looks incredible, honestly. Are you sculpting or printing parts?

>>11440962
Stuff you can see on that photo is carved from 2cm thick XPS styrophoam sheet from construction store. If you have a hot glue-gun, making this building costs less than 5 bucks, but it still requires some final touch, filling the gaps and painting.
I want to 3D print small elements for my diorama, like window frames, vases, furniture, signs, etc. I'm also thinking about replacing current doors with openable 3D printed ones. But main body of those buildings will be build with carved styrophoam.
You can try building one yourself, it's not that hard really and gives a lot of satisfaction.

>>11441584
Damn, I hate how the new Windows hides whether photos are rotated or not.

>>11437808 (OP)
You can get those polystyrene sheets with different shapes/textures including brick, concrete, and corrugated roofs that old-school model railroad types use to make their buildings.
I believe Blick and other art stores carry them, and you can always order them online.

>>11441584
Well it looks smooth as hell, which is why I wondered if it was 3D printed, really nice work. I’ll try my hand at it when I’ve got some space to work, very inspiring anon.

>>11440828
>>11441584
>>11441585
Looks great, hope to see the final version

No a proper diorama, but i did this shit stone throne with some spare pieces of foam.
I will make some paint job later.

>>11451400
Wait, is the pool empty? Is that real water? In the promotional photos I saw it was full, I thought it was resin.

>>11452000
I think it has a removable piece of translucent plastic?

>>11452000
>>11452020
This pool diorama was originally designed to use real water, but I used plastic boards instead.

>>11451400
>>11452031
Where to cop the pool diorama?

Personally I enjoy the rolife dioramas a lot.
They are perfect for 1:18 figs and very fun to put together.
I didnt choose a 1:18 fig for this picture tho, but as reference the mikey figure is around 4'5

>>11452167
Heres a different rolife diorama with some 1:18 figs

>>11452167
Wish it was possible to find easy to buy/built diorama room for 1:12

I love the TVC diorama playsets.

>>11440828
>>11441584
>>11441585
That looks great Anon. Can't wait to see it finished but also I always like seeing things like this in their raw forms.

>>11452236
The shelf is full of 1:12 game boxes, I just printed small rectangles/squares by reducing the dimensions and glued the covers on them, there are also manga, all having 4 pages each, and hentai having 6 pages

>>11452239
exemple

>>11452241
Or model kit box I made ready to be printed, if anyone want it

>>11452249
Same for the vinyle, little square 3d printed, cover glued on it

>>11452241
>>11452239
Damn the equivalent of these on ebay are like $4 each and nobody has free shipping

>>11452286
I can share my ready-to-print manga and cover art if you'd like.
For manga, it's simple: the four pages are in a row. Just cut them out, fold them, and glue the cover on top.
Same for the model kit box
For the covers, it's the size of real boxes divided by 12.

>>11452305
oh, also I did something similar for yugioh cards, I made 200, they are all stuck together, just cut, same for the back

>>11452305
That would be kind of ya.
Although I do not have a printer and usually spend the money on more toys

>>11452167
Picked one up for cheap for my nendos recently. Tempted to get more with the walls/roof.

>>11452385
https://limewire.com/d/C7v6f#URdGFCgDoY
Well, I had trouble finding the manga covers with the binding, so I scanned mine. It's the French version, but at this scale, it's hard to distinguish the language of the summary on the back or the name of the publishing house.
For the size, I took 17cm, the average I obtained by measuring my volumes, divided by 12.
So there's manga, hentai, game/vinyl covers, model kit boxes, posters and Yugioh cards
(SNES boxes can be folded back on themselves like the originals, I've already tried that)

>>11452444
>limewire
It’s been a long time, old friend…

>>11452444
Have you considered selling them to lazy people

>>11452456
How lazy do you have to be for that? It takes a few minutes to make yourself and you can make dozens of them. For that price, you can buy 180g sheets.
Seriously, making 10 DS game boxes costs me 2g of plastic, so 4 cents. For the ink, I use recycled cartridges. For the images, I use OpenOffice because it allows me to change the size directly in centimeters and millimeters. With a script, I can rescale them all at once. I can print more than 100 on a single sheet of paper. Cutting and gluing them takes me less than 2 hours.
And people are selling them 1 for 1 dollar?!

>>11452478
Yeah
You could sell them for $4 with shipping and undercut their whole operation

>>11452478
If nobody else is doing it you can charge what you want

>>11452482
>13 euros for a small piece of cardboard and a small piece of plastic with a sticker
But damn, who pays for that? The point of dollhouses, dioramas, and scenery is to do it yourself or at least follow a tutorial/online resource.

>>11452489
Some people might just want to have a Spider-Man holding a Gameboy for that one

>>11452478
They're selling one for 5 dollars plus 4 dollars shipping actually

>>11452478
Isn't it funny to look at this >>11452456 and then seeing everything here >>11452239 with similar price tags

>>11452495
Well, I'll look into it. I don't do anything all day anyway.
Otherwise, does anyone have any resources for a game center? I'm building one too.

>>11452505
I can also share the arcade papercraft if needed, I found this on an old Japanese blog
just, in my pic some are kit, 3d print, rebranded toy (the fornite cabinet with new stickers) small videogames working arcade...

>>11452503
Outside of the vending kits and the Hasbro Arcades I think there isn't much

>>11452511
it's all on a big shelf
but I also started the one just above and I'm having a bit of trouble finding another arcade/occupation for my figurines

I really think there is a market for like those shooting games like Area 51 in this scale

>>11452512
I'm talking more about online resources, papercraft, 3D printing, etc.
As for kits, there are a few Persona 4 and Astro City kits, but they're old and hard to find.
I'm surprised to find so little for this scale

>>11452519
I have the /toy/ papercraft .zip somewhere, is that of any use?

>>11452236
This is awesome bud, reminds me of my friends and I hanging out. Pretty sure one of us had that spidey poster too. Haha

>>11438382
>>11440107
It's not hard to make this stuff too look decent. Even if you don't have access to a color printer at home, there's places like Fed Ex Kinko or similar mom and pop print shops that let's you use computer time by the hour and print to a color printer. There's full sheet label paper or full sheet color photography printer paper (obviously matte or a flat finish for a diorama). There's even 11x17 color printers if you need something big. And card stock and similar 'arts and crafts' supplies can be had at dollar stores or Target for cheap, especially if you stock up after back to school sales.

>>11452236
looks basic but good effort, especially the posters. I guess I would like it better if the walls (backgrounds) were painted something more interesting - it's look like a sad person's apartment.

>>11452938
>better if the walls (backgrounds) were painted something more interesting
it's not paint, i used real wallpaper

Does a dollhouse count? Found this in a trash pile and cleaned it up. It's like a little general store.

>>11453075
Nice work, anon! And a great lucky find, one man’s trash is another’s treasure, as they say.

Starting work on a 1/12 fantasy dungeon diorama today, I got a cheap acrylic display cube for I think sports memorabilia for a solid base and these rolled out foam pieces. Gonna have to make some doorways and stuff too.

Finished the stone throne.
Also 2 pieces to size adjustment .

>>11452516
someone makes exactly that:
https://shadowmoses112.com/shop/ols/products/area-51

>>11456175
Does that price seem reasonable

>>11463550
Most independently made shit like that is overly expensive, but that other person mentioned this specific arcade cabinet so I posted the link