Complete list of dioramas

Kids

I never do much during the summer months. It’s too hot, the paint dries on the brushes and then I need to reload batteries. So of course nothing

Neptune

I had that idea sketched for about 2 years now, so better model it now I have nothing important to do. No details, just movement speed and water.

Halloween in the Sea

I didn’t want to make a Halloween Diorama like I did about 3 years ago because 🙄, but I fell by chance on that poem from Richard Brautigan.

Kolyuchin

It is the first time I’ve been counting the hours I spent on a diorama: for that one it’s a whooping 40 hours. It’s been inspired by picture

Seascape

I did that one last July as an exercise of water making. The expérimentations I did on that one I used on my recent Lahire Diorama. It’s rather

Boat

Another sea diorama with a boat, a seagull and the sea

Seascape #12

The biggest i ever did, premiered at SMC 2024

Icescape #4

Sort of a challenge with ice and snow and lighting, it seems noone understood it when i aired it here and there, you have to see it on

The King

That diorama is situated in the Philippines in a derelict Spanish colonial house, the damaged furniture was fun to create. the king himself is a Great Hornbill.

Angkor

A few weeks ago I was writing about how you need a complete idea before launching yourself in a project. Sometimes it takes me decades to get to

Waterscape #6

The techniques for doing water from a stream are quite different from those that apply to the sea

Sawfish

That one is a story of a year old failure at doing a good diorama with that #sawfish I modeled some time ago. Once the resin basically failed,

Seascape #11

Baskunchak

Baskunchak is a salt lake not very far from Ukraine.. The colours took me several weeks to fine tune.

Tropics

Here’s a diorama I intended as being a cliché of everything nice and summer related, a holidays feel. the scale is more reduced than usual. I don’t know

Scotland

I absoluteley don’t know whethere there are such paths leading to the sea in Scotland. I based that diorama on a picture I found on Instagram but couldn’t

Baltic

When the summer comes, I start again creating water related dioramas because the epoxy resin dries better. Here’s another Northem Sea diorama complete with driftwood and a bit

Northern Seas

Some Northern sea is did last October. The biggest seascape I ever did yet. Inspired by pictures taken on the Lofoten islands, near Norway.

Frigate

That’s a very simple scene with a frigate bird and a light blue sea. I love doing such dioramas in the summer, before going to holidays.

Tropics

The first of the tropics series. the idea is experimenting again with colour depth, epoxy resin sculpting and waves painting. Summer jobs..

The Swimming Pool

That one is based on the picture of a woman bathing in ice.. a good pretext to model ice and to play with colours

Sweden

1/35 Northern sea diorama based in Sweden, complete with little boats and another Heron! The little brother of Kamtchatka diorama

Kamtchatka

The little brother of the Sweden diorama. Different lattitudes and rocky shore and a nice blue sea.

Seagull

Another one of my best seascapes because it’s simple and has a seagull. My epoxy resin work at its best.

Scotland

The first of the Scotland dioramas I did, the second one was created one year later. One of my best seascapes so far compleet with lighting effects and

Dark Sea

When I was working on references to model my set of  windows last year , I came across that legion of Russian Instagramers who document endlessly crumbling wooden

Mairangi Bay 2

There are lots of places in my mind where the land is bare and only populated by knee jerk reactions. Then some UFO of a news comes over.

The Whale

I used to feel pretty vacant. That is, not depressed or anything, just empty. Nothing positive or negative goes on in my mind, just a blind wish to

Mairangi Bay

I used to have a friend living in Auckland New Zealand, she was living near mairangi Bay and kept on sending me beautiful pictures of the volcanic sand

Window #4

This one was inspired both by a building not very far from my home and a picture I saw which was taken in Minsk – Belarus which showed

Воркута Vorkuta

Every winter, countless of Russian bloggers seem to converge to t(hat special town called Vorkuta which is quite close to the polar circle. Lots of abandoned buildings with

Cosmonaut

Auckland

Most people I know are naturally more or less connected with their birth place. Most of the time it feels like no more than a tiny wire, it

Dacha II

Dacha I

Grey Sea

ÅTRÅ

I think it dates from last summer when the barges on the Rhône were opened late at night and found out that the only music that would help

The crow

When I was a kid, my parents had some friends living in Göttingen so we went to visit so I could improve my German. One fine summer afternoon

Bluebird

It took me a long time to realize that I tend to not get on that well with people of my own age. It’s just like i have

Disapperaring in Aiguebelette

« When I feel like it, I leave late at night and disappear. I never go back home till late the following day. I invent a new name, go

Red Sea

Brasil

I used to have a friend from that place. He used to have jeweled hands and wrists and fair hair. But his eyes were for me a complete

Dollhouse

Whenever I feel like I really went too much beyond my own universe, i feel like I have to go back to my basis. That is Mother Russia,

Zig et Sharko

Like a lot of parents i am leading a constant war against the amount of time my kids spend in front of the TV. But of course i

Up

Does she go upwards or does she crashes facedown on the sand like a pancake?..

Dobermann

So that’s the story of a friend of mine who was more or less living with an older girl who owned a big black smelly scruffy noisy unsound

Just the Sea

Lots of people seemed to have liked that BMW diorama while it was a rather painful buisness from start to finish. So whenever I work on a hard

E-21

It took me more than 6 weeks to complete that dog. I can’t believe it for such a small scene. The kit is Meng’s BMW E-21 in 1/35,

Wavebreaker

That one is completely based on a picture a friend sent me on a forum, so much for my creativity. The only difference was that there was a

Visited Place #1

Visited place. That diorama changed a bit since I first planned it, but the point was also to use those great Model Scene ferns in a more artistic

Medusa VII

This diorama is an echo of Medusa 1  to 3 that you can see on the JbaDiorama website. It’s part of an ongoing fictionnal story about trouble waters. The orange

Black Ice

It all started when a friend of mine told « I want to go to Iceland because the sand on the beaches is BLACK ». So in my mind I

Pollen (Medusa V)

That’s  my own version of Millais’ Ophelia. I always planned to use that portrait I sculpted a few years back in one way or another and then last

On the rocks

I sort of want to follow the seasons with my dioramas, so after that new one in 4 months i thought i could do something about the scorching

Yttygran

Yttygran is an island situated in the Bering sea. Says Wikipedia :  « Situated on the northern shore of Yttygran island (from the Chukchi Etgyran, meaning « midway dwellings »), whale

The Icy River

Another one I have mixed feelings about. In truth this is a sort of draft : I have a truck model that waits for me since about 2

Just the Sea 1 #2

I gave out the first of that series to someone who is very dear to me and I was suddenly deprived of my first diorama, the only one

Saint Laurent

Winter Marsh

Ever since I am a small kid I have been fascinated by marshes, ponds you name it. I remember when I was a kid going in full winter

Top of the Lake

One of the lesser of the series I suppose? I should work on it again. The colors are good and make it for a rather uneventful water scape.

Brook in autumn

Dreary humid, foggy autumn and then the yellow leaves fall in the river filled with pure water as renewed by the countless scattered showers. I feel both cold

The Grey Sea

The Grey sea is my best of the series so far. It has it all. First it’s done at a smaller scale than the usual 1/35 and then

Ripples

I always have the temptation of going a bit beyond those nature dioramas by including some human input at some point and then I say to myself heck

Muddy shore

So it happens my mom lives close to the Bassin d’Arcachon which is located on Western France. When the tide is low the sea almost leaves the whole

White shore

« Yeah it’s rather nice, the primary lines are good, but you missed the secondary ones ». The art teacher leaves the room, I suddenly feel slightly depressed.. The sea

Just the Sea 1 #1

The second prototype! Long gone now, looks like blue flowers..

Aivazovsky

Aivazovski is not the best painter in history but I think he was my work’s major influence at some point. I like it all, the colors, the shape, the

The Law of Diminishing Returns

« In economics, diminishing returns is the decrease in the marginal (incremental) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is incrementally increased,