CENTRE THE DRAGON: BOYLEI HOBBY TIME'S INSPIRATIONAL 'DEFEND THE TAVERN' DIORAMA

 Sometimes you see someone with such incredible skill that you just want to give up there and then and start shelling peas.

My mate Mark introduced me to such a one, Boylei Hobby Time.

Based in Colorado USA Boylei is a gifted diorama modeller. His use of lighting seems particularly inspired to me.

This diorama just blew me away, Defend the Tavern.

You can watch how Boylei makes this diorama on his You Tube channel.

Check out his other fabulous creations including his latest, a train lay-out.

https://www.youtube.com/@Boylei

What do you think?

Sherlock Holmes Book Nook Diorama

Book nooks are small dioramas, which will fit on a book shelf. They are very narrow, but fairly deep. Apart from making your own, there are now kits available. Wood seems to be the main material.

In this series of You Tube videos Brad hair looks at a kit called Library Prague. He turns it in to a crime scene for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson to investigate. The figures used are 3D printed.

I had not seen these kits before, but had a look around the shops recently, and found some. Not the same as the one featured in this video, but similar. They include lighting.

Fairly expensive, but they look like fun.

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag86Fhcmev8

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JKYuPNoMvE

Part 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQJru61ZdIM

Part 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgEvu-U1LiU

Part 5 - all finished. A highlight of this episode is a guest appearance by his cat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpd3E1AstY

Paul Adams from New Zealand

JOSEPH SVEC'S INCIDENT AT ALPHA 1 BASE CAMP DIORAMA

Here are photos based on the movie Forbidden Planet.

The space cruiser is homemade wooden. The space accessories and figures are reissue Marx. the ID monster is 3-d printed.

Here is an original scene, “Incident on Alpha-1 base camp”

It uses LOD Space Aliens, SCS-Direct, and Marx astronauts and accessories. The flying saucers are from the movie Mars Attacks.

The terrain pieces are reissue Marx.

I hope you enjoy the photos. 

Joseph.

JOSEPH SVEC'S SPHINX AND TIME MACHINE

Here are more of my diorama photos for H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine.

The time machine and sphinx building are homemade, the Sphinx figure, Eloi, Morlocks, and character figures, were purchased online.

Hope you like them.

Joseph Svec.

JOSEPH'S MOONBASE

Greetings,

I hope you are well and staying healthy. You posted photos of several of my dioramas, back in 2014. Thank you! It is amazing how much time has gone by. I have expanded and updated my Moonbase diorama, and also created a few other Sci-fi/space related dioramas to follow.

Thank you, hope you like them,

Joseph Svec

JOSEPH SVEC'S DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

After many years absence from Moonbase Central Joseph has shared photo's of one of his new but relatively modest dioramas, H.G. Well's Day of the Triffids. Hope you like it.

 There is much more to come from Joseph as worlds have continued to go to war on a vast scale at his home for the past 9 years so Watch this crawlspace!

Photos: Joseph Svec III

IN A RUBBER GLOVE FAR FAR AWAY

 

I had to look twice at these Star Wars ESB dioramas. I thought they were toy sets.

On further inspection they look like bespoke settings made from cut foam of some sort and rubber gloves. The page top is branded WD Exclusive Design.

This is a page, 114, from Woman's Day from November 1980.

I saw it online.

Have you come across anything like this readers?

A JOB FOR T-5

The crisis in the planet's green slime pit got worse until the company's best T-5 pilot arrived, albeit very late, to pull the capsule free just before it set hard. The plot thickens.

DON'T MAKE A DIORAMA OUT OF A CRISIS!

Eagle-eyed reader Tony K has spotted this neat card diorama of Quatermass and the Pit and the Knightsbridge Apemen.

Its available on Etsy.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/638712871/quatermass-and-the-pit-toy-theatre

Its being advertised standing on a rather lovely pile of DVD's! Now that's some TV right there!

What do you think?

STATIONARY PACKET AND ROVING VEHICLE: THE TOYS

I've been enjoying looking through this old US Army report about vehicles related to the Moon Prospector. 

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730064135.pdf

In particular I was taken with these three pictures, which depict what's called the Stationary Packet - a Prospector without wheels - and the wheeled version of the Prospector, here called the Roving Vehicle.

So inspired was I by these two types of prospector lander I had a go them myself versions using my toy vehicles.

Toys used are my Project SWORD Moon Prospector and SpaceX Lunar Module.

Artistic licence has been used, For instance the water on the moon!

The landing vehicle slot below is our de-humidifier!

See what you think.

 L A N D I N G  V E H I C L E  F O R   S T A T I O N A R Y   P A C K E T

R O V I N G  V E H I C LE  L A N D E R  D E S C E N T

R O V I N G  V E H I C L E  L A N D E R   D E P A R T 

JAPANESE MOLE DIORAMA

Etsuro Murata's working mole diorama as seen on You Tube.

Not sure of the make but the drill bit spins!

LEMS, LESA'S AND LUNAR DIORAMAS: OHIO VALLEY SPACEPORT

Check out the beautiful model dioramas of LEMS and LESA's on this lovely site, The Ohio Valley Spaceport.

http://ovsma.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/lost-opportunities-missions-that-never.html

terranova47's dan dare, digby and tram diorama

Hello, 

As per your request here are pictures of the latest Dan Dare & Digby joining the rest of the gang in their display cabinet. 

The other picture shows the Smith's Crisps delivery lorry on my layout. Smith's were the brand with the blue bag of salt to add if you wished. 

I'm fascinated by the amount of space theme related toys your blog covers. In the sixties while in college I started collecting old toys originally because I was reading the Ladybird Book, Tootles the Taxi over and over again to my god daughter. 

It was getting too tiresome and since the cars, lorry's etc in the book were drawn from Dinky Toys I looked for old ones to draw from for to create my own version. 

As I was also buying gifts for small kids I was in toy shops a lot yet I don't remember all those space toys at all. There was a Tri-ang train with helicopter and missile launch cars, that's all I can recall. 

The one I did buy was the Budgie Supercar, which I gave as a birthday present to someone. 

Amongst my as yet unbuilt kits I do have a Marx Dalek, a Polar Lights Robbie the Robot and a Stingray that was going to be part of the harbor scene on my layout but I ran out of room for that diorama. 

I do have a Mint poster of Captain Scarlet that was the image from the backs of the bubble gum cards, I think the artist was Ron Embleton. 

Keep up the good work. 

Terranova47, NYC, USA 

UFO shado 2 with working lights diorama

This looks fascinating. 

It appears to be a SHADO Mobile with working lights and then set in a series of stills like a photo-story. 

I haven't set up access for flickr but hopefully it works anyway.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28773898@N04/with/12261755266/

What do you think?

MSV DIORAMA

Hi,

Been playing around taking photos and I just thought this one looks like its part of a story, no idea what's going on though.

Take care,

Kevin

Bill's idea: It does indeed Kevin. A scheduled transport via nuclear freighter is forced to land at a small provincial spaceport and Maximum Security Detail is dispatched from Spectrum to retrieve the cargo.

JOSEPH SVEC'S WAR OF THE WORLDS UPDATED DIORAMA 3

JOSEPH SVEC'S WAR OF THE WORLDS UPDATED DIORAMA 2

JOSEPH SVEC'S WAR OF THE WORLDS DIORAMA

Greetings Moon Base readers

I have again updated my H.G.Wells, War of the Worlds diorama, this time for display in a local bookstore window in Jackson California. 

It is now 8' x 2.5' and has approximately 45 hand painted 1890's British infantry figures plus several civilians. I also added the scene when the Martian cylinder has opened up and the humans encounter the Martians for the first time. 

The Martian figures that are coming out of the cylinder and the downed tripod are based on a 1890's book illustration. I also added more tentacles to the martian tripods, and one of them has grabbed an unfortunate soldier.

This version also features more building debris and Martian red weed. I will send additional photos in a second email

What do you think of this version?

Thank you,

Joseph Svec