Black Sun Taking Pre-Orders For Stunning 75mm Diorama
December 14, 2017 by brennon
Black Sun Miniatures have taken inspiration from the likes of Conan for their massive 75mm scale diorama piece, Blood For The Black Sun. Check it out...
The diorama comes complete with the Barbarian, Princess, Priestess and the Altar itself which is just looking insane. It was sculpted by Joaquin Palacios and looks like it has been ripped right from the cover of one of the comics or books set in the world of Conan.
Black Sun do some great stuff with their smaller scale miniatures and manage to work in all manner of details to their figures, but with something at this scale they certainly open up the possibilities for them to explore their characters in more depth.
Now you just have to work out how you're going to paint up this immense piece. I imagine working on each of the characters individually would be a good start and then working your way up through the different elements before assembling it.
You're going to have a lot of skin tones to work with as well as bright colours for the Priestess. Maybe you could even consider looking at some object source lighting from those blazing torches?
What do you think of the diorama?
"...looks like it has been ripped right from the cover of one of the comics or books set in the world of Conan."
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wow this looks great.
got to agree with Ben, if your playing conan then this would make some centre piece.
epic seems suitable.
That is a truly epic show piece if I ever seen one.
As the works of Robert E. Howard – and so much of the pulp Fantasy genre his work inspired – teaches us, you aren’t really a princess until you have been kidnapped at least once. Bonus points if you are kidnapped topless, because reasons…
Laughing at the tropes of the genre aside, the quality of this diorama is exceptional, and it is totally loyal to the kind of imagery you would find in the still iconic source material. People with far, far greater painting skill than mine will have a blast with it.
Getting kidnapped topless probably increases your chance of someone coming to rescue you
Just goes to show that some things are worth adventuring for!
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Absolutely Love it! I would really like to customise this to have Conan cutting through a host of evil acolytes, serpents and assorted bad things to get to Thoth Amon before he can slice and dice the Princess. (yeah I know the villian in this diorama is a generic bad girl high priestess, even so, the possibilities are endless)
That’s beyond my ability with a brush but stunning.
Only attempt if you are particularly good at skin tones. Because oh my is there a lot of flesh to deal with here!
It is very well sculpted but not a thing I’d own.
It looks amazing but at £135 I’m not sure I can really justify that at the moment