TheBadFaerie

I was going through some of my old pictures and I came across a couple from when I was making Mining at Night Mining at Night. I originally took them for my Haytreon subscribers, but it's been a couple of years since I made the original model, so it's probably OK to post them up here for free. This is just the quick version, with mostly raw pictures, if you want to see a detailed breakdown of each part of the build please subscribe (and ignore the terrible virtual avatar, this was from before I had mocap and lipsync set up properly). Anywho. Like most of my Diorama, this one started out as a block of blue HD crafting foam. I used a resin cast of one of my existing models to gauge the size for the base and then cut it out with a hot wire. This one was a book nook so there wasn't much room for maneuver but I needed something to help me visualize how much space I had for the details of the diorama. After I'd marked out the base and cut it to size I did the same for the back and

Normally I only make my behind the scenes content available to Haytreon members, but since I've not been uploading much lately I thought that I'd give everyone a sneak peek at how I went about making my latest model. Here are the bird houses from Griffonstone from first principles to complete. They're mostly just coffee stirrers stuck to card stock with some filament form a 3D pen to make the roofs. The paint is just regular modeling contrast paint.