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Bilbo Baggins (diorama in a book)
This diorama won GOLD in LOTR category at italian Golden Demon 2006! ƒº I finished it at 4 a.m. in the hotel at Milano and 5 hours later I entered it at italian GD!! :) I love Tolkien ¡¥s novels and this is my second LOTR diorama (you can see the first here: http://www.coolminiornot.com/37048 ) The idea: in Tolkien¡¦s novels Bilbo is the main character and also the author of a book entitled ¡§There and back again¡Ka hobbit tale¡¨, the diary of his adventures: so I literally put him IN the book he wrote, symbolized by the ¡§diorama-book¡¨ that contains the scene¡K:) My main inspiration has been ¡§warhammer quest¡¨ diorama by Mike Mc Vey, one of my favourite miniature artist ever. For the scene I used mainly plasticard, green stuff, milliput, balsa wood, photoetched plants. The book was a real little book :I glued together and engraved the pages and repainted the cover, then I decorated and weathered the main page. The Shire ¡¥s map (handpainted on a paper foil, then weathered and glued on the book) is inspired by that on the first GW LOTR rulebook and some others Middle Earth maps I found on the web. The most difficoult thing has been to realize a diorama in a so little space: less than 1,5 cm of depth!! Thanks to my friends who helped me with suggestions and to all the painters of Legio Pictorum for the great support at italian GD!! :) Last but not least: this diorama is a gift for my girlfriend Viviana! :) Ciao Luca
Posted: 11 Jan 2007
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