How to Make Fantasy Dioramas

The complete tutorial. Takes you step by step from planning to completion. How to make a fantasy diorama. The diorama made in this tutorial is called battle for the treasure. It depicts a wizard fighting three skeletons over a treasure chest. All the basic techniques of diorama and landscape building are covered.

It even adds an optional light to the end of the wizards staff -powered by a nine volt battery.

How to make a fantasy diorama

Dioramas and miniature scene building used to be in the sole ownership of model railroaders and military buffs. They would create scenes that realistically depicted battles and railroads. But this has changed dramatically over the past decade. WIth the advent of a lot of fantasy writing, video gaming and movie making dioramas are now a common hobby in the genre.

There is a big difference between fantasy dioramas and traditional dioramas though. The traditional ones aimed at reproducing real world scenes as accurately as possible whereas fantasy dioramas aim to create new miniature worlds that don't really exist -yet make them look as realistic as possible.

This brings a whole new aspect to the diorama making -imagination.

This is a tutorial on how to make a fantasy shadowbox. The shadowbox we make is perfect for displaying your fantasy miniatures and is made for hanging on the wall. The scene we create is a dungeon scene and it is called "Women Warriors prepare for battle" It is a showcase for some of my fantasy female warrior miniatures.

How to make a fantasy shadowbox

Knight and Dragon Battle - One of the nice things about this project is that it fills the space of the diorama nicely. The dragon appears to be floating in mid air.
This tutorial has everything you need. You can download the graphics of the dragon and the knight, color them and cut them out.
Nice project for kids.

How to make a shoebox diorama

This diorama has a castle on one end and a mountain on the other. The battlefield is between them. Many extras on this diorama -lights, chandelier, working waterfall.

Take a look at this fantasy diorama