Awesome Dioramas

Satoshi Araki loves to create unbelievably detailed scale models and miniature dioramas, featuring both real world and fictional elements. Spoon & Tamago says he mainly uses styrofoam boards for his sculptures. More here.

A group of scientists study a demon frog in a towering laboratory as its fellow creatures look on in this stunning award-winning diorama by Cristoph Blumenthal. Check out his gallery to see just how detailed and alive it looks.

Artist Garth Borovicka hand makes these beautiful and substantial bookends from layers of wood whose rings symbolize the gradual passage of time on our planet, each topped off by a tiny diorama representing varied ecosystems.

Gaming Heads’ officially-licensed diorama recreates the famous Doom box cover art. It’s finished and painted by hand and has removable bullet effects. The Exclusive Edition has pulsing lights in its base. Standard version here.

(NSFW) Redditor CaptJax’s wife makes unsettling dioramas depicting people committing grim and lascivious acts in otherwise idyllic or mundane scenes. Because everything’s not all right.

YouTuber H1tmonchan spotted this kick-ass window display at a toy store in a mall in Norway. The diorama made of LEGO Star Wars sets came alive through the use of a hologram-style projection.

LEGO-maniac Jay Hoff used over 30,000 bricks to create this intricate scene of the Emperor’s arrival in Return of the Jedi. He “cheated” and used some Clone Troopers instead of Storm Troopers, though.

Bored at work? Use your office supplies to recreate infamous disasters using Spitefuls’ free template downloads. Build a paper volcano, a flaming airship, or even molasses. Oh, the humanity!

The X-Men’s militant counterparts, X-Force, get a detailed polystone diorama that Cable would be proud of; it features Warpath, Wolfsbane, X-23, and Wolverine, the latter with two portraits.