How to Make a Spectacular Wall Diorama to display your Miniatures

If you collect, make, or paint fantasy miniatures for gaming or just for the enjoyment of it one of the biggest challenges you have is how to display them. You can lay them on shelves or just place them on a table. But either way you don't really do justice to them. Putting them on shelves is nice but it lacks something. And putting them on some kind of terrain or diorama is great but it does bring up the issue of how much space you want it to take up. Can you leave a big diorama or gaming table safely out? This wall diorama is the perfect solution for these problems. It mounts on the wall which gives it the space saving convenience of shelving; yet it still has the panache of a diorama! Its a really nice solution to the question of how to display your miniatures.

Here is the Diorama we will be making in this tutorial. It is 35 inches wide and 26 inches tall. It has a glass door on the front that is hinged and it hinges down so you can access the diorama and miniatures that are inside.

This tutorial is both web based and video based. I have complete instructions and guidelines here that will show you how you can make something like this and there are plenty of both pictures and videos.

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1. Miniature Home
2. Miniature Painting intro & overview
3. Painting Miniatures Tutorial start
4. The Paints
5. Preparing the Miniature for painting
6. Priming the Miniature
7. What to paint first
8. More Painting and the details
9. Close-up of the completed Warhorse
10. Adding texture to the base for realism
11. Tips and hints for painting miniatures
12. Diorama and Miniature supply Store
13. New Painting Miniature Tutorial: A Spartan Warrior
14. VIDEO TUTORIAL: How to paint miniatures
15. Miniature Paints and kits at Amazon
16. Ral Partha Miniatures
17. Links and info about manufacturers of miniatures
18. Understanding Miniature Scale
19. How to Make Foam Terrain for wargaming or dioramas
20. How to Cast Miniatures

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1. Part 1 - intro
2. Part 2 - Drawings
3. Part 3 - Making Wire Armatures
4. Part 4 - Your first miniature 6"
5. Part 5 - Make a 3" miniature
6. Part 6 - the musculature of the 3" miniature Viking Warrior
7. Part 7 - Our first Armor - we sculpt the viking helmet
8. Part 8 - Sculpting leather and chainmail
9. Part 9: Adding Belt, bracers and boots
10. Part 10:Painting the miniature
11. Part 11: 25mm Female Warrior
12. Part 12 : The basic shape of the mini
13. Part 13: Completing the body
14. Part 14: Adding the swords and doing detail
15. Part 15: Painting and finishing the miniature
16. Sculpting Fantasy Miniatures Video Tutorials
17. Sculpting miniatures store- all the supplies you need.
18. Sculpting tips
19. Sculpt a Dwarf
20. Sculpt a Treasure Chest

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