Luis is a regular contributor to this website. He has made a whole lot of amazing dioramas that use different materials and techniques. And that cover a wide variety of subjects.

I have a page dedicated to his dioramas right here. You have to check them out!!

Dioramas by Luis

Luis tells us about this templar diorama:

This vignette came with just about from two simple 28mm figures from Mirliton figures from Italy, A Templar Knight and his squire, Which is never seen in a diorama. Most dioramas or vignette always show the knight. So I though I throw in a squire for many knights had squires to assist them and they themselves were knights in training until they proved themselves worthy of being a Templar Knight. 

The Base - the base is just a piece of scrap wood. While the ground work is made of mushy paper and white glue. Once the "ground" was dried, I washed it with watered-downed white glue and then sprinkled grounded up burnt charcoal and wood, I gathered up from my barbecue pit from over the summer. Once that dried I painted it in various browns to make it look like dirt. 
When the paint dried, washed the ground work with the watered-down glue and sprinkled static grass on the sides and on a little bit on the middle of the road. As the grass dried, i went to work adding the rocks, (real ones), and a real plant root as a dead tree, and used a old paint brushes to make the tall grass and lichen as bushes dunked in oregano for the leaves.

 
As for the road, I decided to make it look like the individuals were on horseback near the end of winter, early spring, by making the road wet and muddy. To make mud I used several droplets of ArtMinds Blue Waterscape in several spots along the ground work. Then dropped a little yellow brown paint and mixed it and let it dry. after I dry brushed the entire layout with Tamiya Clear (X-22) to give it a "just had just rained" look.

The Figures -  Nothing special was done to them, beside using foil to make straps for their equipment and finish the horse harness. For the Templar's spear, I added a guidon, which was miniaturized and printed from the internet. 
And that was it for just two figures I had laying around for month that I bought pre-COVID. it took 5 days to do this vignette.