Barely a week after featuring the MSN-06S Sinanju with diorama, another amazing diorama has just caught my eyes. I present to you: the Graveyard.
Don Carlo Suratos (a.ka. donc0023 in Plamo & ZeroG) hails from Philippines and he is the man behind this amazing diorama, ‘the Graveyard’. ‘The Graveyard’ is his entry for the recently concluded Bakuc Philippines 2009 and just for the record, he is also the Bakuc World Champion in December 2008. And now introducing, our cast in this diorama; Infinite Justice, our main lead, together with the Impulse, Gunner Zaku and the MG freedom guest-starring as the wreckage lying below.
Without further ado, enjoy yourself looking at these wonderful micro-details of this diorama.
As compared to the MSN-06S Sinanju with diorama, this diorama can be considered much ‘noisier’ and bustling with life. Despite being ‘noiser’, it doesn’t mean that you can overlook all the little bits of details inside. Looking at these miniatures, you can see ‘life’ from them, through their actions and poses; very dynamic, just like real people in real life going about with their work.
I highly recommend dropping by his work-in-progress link @ ZeroG, the 37 pages might seemed a little daunting initially, but I believe that everyone of us can learn a thing or two on making diorama while going through then along the way. If you always wondered about how this miniature structure are constructed, built and painted, this is preharps the best time to do so. Do drop by his blog – DC23 mech arts for the full set and actual size of photos of his diorama.
Well then, after seeing this, what do you people think of this diorama? Which part of it do you like best?
If you had to choose between this diorama and the MSN-06S Sinanju diorama for a winner , which one would you pick and why?
This one is even more badass than the Sinanju… I’ll need 10 years to make something like this… Like a scene from a movie…
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Jacques Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 1:47 am
I think I will satisfied if I could emulate just a portion of the diorama, for example, like the post banner picture at the top.
I think with a few photoshop touches, the macro shots would really pass off easily as a scene from the movie and no one could tell the difference
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The details are crazy awesome! It truly is a labor of love!
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Jacques Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Truly crazy indeed, this is the best diorama I’ve seen so far.
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awesome!! unlimited justice work!! and there r more gundam hiding down there ^^
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Jacques Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Yup, Zaku Gunner, Destiny and Freedom are all lying below as scraps.
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This is great!
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This is absolutely nuts! Like… I don’t even know how to find the words to praise this thing. EVERY square cm has details on it! If I have to nitpick… I think IJ up there can be in a better pose ^^;.
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Jacques Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Yes, I agree that IJ pose looks kinda underwhelming, it seems like he is idling, probably because it is a salvage operation, the battlefield is where he truly belongs.
In fact, the IJ can actually be totally omitted from the diorama and the diorama will still do fine on its own since the IJ has little part to play.
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It’s been a while since I came back. This particular diorama took me some time to look at :O
It looks like that on the ground there’s something going on on every spot, with all the workers appearing to be working on various things rather than just standing idle and looking. Can’t judge whether the scales of the figures are right but I assume they are (judging from those standing next to the Gundam and Zaku heads). However, with a lot of things going on the ground, IJ feels underwhelming and a bit out of place. Not a huge issue really, since it is very well made too.
Hard to compare it with the Sianju diorama, since they are quite different afterall. What I do like about the Sianju one is that it tries to give a feel of Zero-Gee with it as well as the crew floating in the atmosphere – it’s something quite interesting and clean to look at too I’d say.
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Jacques Reply:
December 29th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Welcome back, Q
Indeed, looking back at it for another few more times, make me realise that the best way to enjoy and appreciate this diorama, is to zoom in on the macro details of the different areas rather than looking at it from afar as a whole. Also to add, preharps it is the scale and size of the entire diorama that makes the IJ looked like a supporting cast.
While in the Sinanju diorama situation, the diorama is of a smaller scale, allowing it to complement the Sinanju rather than upstaging it.
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Wow, that’s pretty amazing! What’s the Infinite Justice doing there? Supervising?
Man, I really need to work on my Diorama skills.
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Jacques Reply:
December 29th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Yup, he is supervising down there.
Diorama skills, is definitely the next level for us to learn once we have a good grasp at the basics.
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Hello guys! I was totally surprised to see my work in a different site and I thank JACQUES for promoting my ” the graveyard ” in his site. Thanks a ton man! I truly appreciate it…and a ton of thanks to all who left comments here also.
Bro Jacques I added your site in my bloglist as a token of my appreciation….thanks man.
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Jacques Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Thanks for the add.
I just thought that your diorama was really wonderfully done and deserved a mention by sharing it together with other fellow gunpla modelers.
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This dio is highly detailed. Every part has details like the real scene!
Though I must say the IJ is somewhat overkill >.<
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wow what kind of Inf Justice is that o__O
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