My Third Diorama Beren and Luthien

This is the end of another project and one that I have really enjoyed doing.

I’m on a real Lord of the Rings and middle earth binge over the last few months.

It really is infectious Ben ?

The base of the Diorama is A4 foamboard.

The carved this into the shape I wanted with a hobby knife and used offcuts to raise certain areas of the scene (werewolf and grave)

I coated this board with some Valejo earth texture paint and applied thickly in places to create some wagon tracks.

I applied grass next, basically just sprinkled over PVA glue.

I then removed some grass to create a few more muddy parts.

Valejo water effect resin was added to certain parts of the wagon tracks to make then look a little more slick.

I needed some trees to add a bit of hight to the scene and these black trees seemed to do the job perfectly.

I found them at a local country park next to a sort of dried out bog.

These trees I mainly added to the werewolf side of the piece as I wanted a definite dark / shadow side of the scene and a light side of the scene with the flowers and Tolkiens grave.

Light against the shadow being a major part of Tolkiens work and lore.

The scene was a little too open so a curved wall and gate sections of wall were added to the piece to “frame” it a little bit.

Tree stumps and wall sections all from the amazing Fogou models.

The walls were sprayed grey, washed with army painter dark tone, washed a little less with strong tone then washed towards the bottom with green tone.

Drybrushing was then done with a basic bone white.

I hope you enjoy viewing the project as much as I enjoyed creating it.