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Dioramas.

So, as I have mentioned, I have been captivated by the YouTube channel Boylei’s Hobby Time. While he does a great many hobby projects, including a lot of Star Wars stuff, I’m most drawn to his Weird West. In these dioramas he makes, he creates a world in which the Old West, the Wild West, has some amount of technology which allows for mechs and machines. It’s never quite clear where their technology has come from, or the level of technology that they have. Boylei has said before that he doesn’t want them to have electricity per se, but they do have mechs built out of Prairie Schooners.

Anyway, the point is, it’s all awesome, and I wanted to try my hand at it.

So, I’m 100% copying him. If imitation is the best form of flattery, then I’m flattering him a lot.

The premise of my dioramas world is this: The Pilgrims were coming across on the Mayflower, and while they got pretty good at dealing with the sea monsters that beset them, they also were shipwrecked at Plymouth Rock and have been rebuilding their society.

So: Pilgrims are sea monster hunters. They win a lot, but not all the time. (I got the Pilgrim models from Imex. The rest is scratchbuilt from balsa, lots of bits box stuff, some UV resin, green stuff, and Woodland Scenics trees.)

Meanwhile, the Indians they encounter are very friendly, and at the First Thanksgiving they swap knowledge: the Pilgrims teach the Indians about killing sea monsters, and the Indians teach the Pilgrims about their steam engine technology. (Because of course the Indians have steam engine technology.)

Anyway, this is the first diorama that I have created in this imagined world. Two Pilgrims, manning the watchtower, while a small sea monster pokes its head out of one of the small underwater tunnels that mark the ground of New England. (Seriously, it’s what New England is known for, and I’ll hear nothing of it.)