Distant Shores
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Dioramas
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King
Right after completing the Lotus diorama, i thought i’d say in far east Asia. So i studied Spanish colonial architecture as well as the local wildlife and came on that king, the great hornbill. I don’t really know why but it looks to me like straight of an Asian Harry Potter movie..
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Lotus
That diorama is situated in the temple of Angkor Vat in Cambodia. You can see a four headed Buddah dropped in the pool. That diorama appeared to me in a single flash vision, like all the best things I do. The point was to create a dusk feeling in the secene, using warm and dark
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Portholes
The kind of dioramas i do when i have one week with nothing to do
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Seashore
Resin and supersculpey
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Alps
Resin, Supersculpey and flowers
![Miniature picture of Baskunchak 1/35 diorama with dogs and salt lake](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/4-1.jpg)
Baskunchak
Baskunchak is a salt lake not very far from Ukraine.. The colours took me several weeks to fine tune.
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Tropics
Here’s a diorama I intended as being a clichĂ© of everything nice and summer related, a holidays feel. the scale is more reduced than usual. I don’t know whetehr 1/48 or 1/72 would be best to qualify it.
![1/35 Scotland diorama with heron and railway track](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2-3.jpg)
Scotland, 1/35 box diorama
I absolutely don’t know whether there are such paths leading to the sea in Scotland. I based that diorama on a picture I found on Instagram but couldn’t remind where it was shot. I’m particularly happy about the colouring despite the subdued feel of that scene. Finally I absolutely love to add herons in my
![Diorama thumbnail 1/35 Baltic sea, with driftwood](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/3-1.jpg)
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 of dark sea. Payne Gray rules!
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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.
![1/35 diorama frigate bird and light blue sea](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/vignette-1.jpg)
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.
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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
![1/35 diorama Northern sea sweden with little boats](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/vignete.jpg)
Sweden
1/35 Northern sea diorama based in Sweden, complete with little boats and another Heron! The little brother of Kamtchatka diorama
![Tropical sea 1/35 diorama, very blue!](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/detials.jpg)
Tropics
The first of the tropics series. the idea is experimenting again with colour depth, epoxy resin sculpting and waves painting. Summer jobs..
![Seascape 1/35 diorama with lighting effect and rocky shore](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/MG_8771.jpg)
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 rocky seashore yet again.
![Kamtchatka diorama 1/35 with buoy and rocks](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/vignette.jpg)
Kamtchatka
The little brother of the Sweden diorama. Different lattitudes and rocky shore and a nice blue sea.
![1/35 blue seascape diorama with a seagull](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/MG_8789.jpg)
Seagull
Another one of my best seascapes because it’s simple and has a seagull. My epoxy resin work at its best.
![1/35 diorama New Zealand Mairangi Bay](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/q_MG_6178.jpg)
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. I discuss it with the Sandy Haired Girl and when she leaves, there are roads, libraries and pubs all over the place. I feel blessed knowing her
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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 huts and churches, icy buildings up north. Checking month after month I realized that if you lend me their good drones and the means to travel at
![1/35 building diorama under snow in Minsk Belarus](https://www.distant-shores.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/MG_5813-1.jpg)
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 such a building full of snow, the aim was to reproduce those snowy effects.