Complete Dioramas list from Jean Diorama

This one was basically inspired by the backrooms aesthetics, I find that repetititive universe pretty cool  for a variety of reasons. I mixed that with the beautiful pictures made by photographer @hangschlitt  in various undergrounds in the world but especially the Berlin Ubahn. The electric colours, the flashy yellow and greens, the 1960s look about

This is the first time I try to change the format of my boxes dioramas. i had to create the box by myself though which proved kind of hard since I’m no wood worker. Thiçs is a simple exercice of contrast, repetition like a music rhythm. The woman is noone in particular.

The last of the series. I wanted to make another contrast between the flowery bathing suit and a very blue swimming pool. Instead of catapulting my model in my rusty world, I thought it would be nice to get into her own. With lights from the past and a clear horizon ahead.

Using the AK Interactive Land Rover as a base.

No comment needed on that one, that’s my take on Moby Dick, more or less inspired by an illustration I found of Captain Ahab not doing much in front of the big whale.

This one is not even taken out of my fantasy. It shows the real story of that Berlin nurse that collected that #shoebill after the zoo was bombed in 1943. If you Google the event you will see a picture of her handfeeding the bird in her bathroom that she transformed in a zoo cage. Of course

When I was doing my military service I was working near the exit of the airbase. And there was that bearded guy, a fully armed commando that I befriended because he was listening to metal band Behemoth in his little cage near the red barrier. Really I am thinking of this because I was searching for

Sleepwalking straight from bed one early morning I got it on the tip of the finger, the idea of the perfect portrait for that blonde here on my diorama. Really I was sure of it, the mystery cloud had finally disappeared after more than 3 years of conversation. But I dropped a spoon on the

My last seascape of 2023, a sort of hommage to Russian XIXth century painter Ivan Aivazovski who filled his work with seas and sinking ships

The one on that scene is trapped in her own country. Since she loves Italy, it’s my way to take her there. on some Roman ruins with koï carps in the water.

Contrary to what I’ve been told about that one, the girl is not dead at all, she just fell from a rusty roundabout and thought herself at ease with lying in the grass amongst the dandelions.

I sometimes have a great deal of difficulty to understand why I did this or that diorama. I guess that special story started with a great interest in the nordic interior decoration as pictured damaged by @abandoned_nordic. So the wall, door and floor is a mix between a couple of pictures they took either in Poland

The building was modelled after a factory’s courtyard in St Petersburg Russia .

I consider myself being rather ageless in my ideas, musical or artistic tastes, yet i don’t like 90% of what I’ve seen of street art and like my walls blank. So that diorama is basically the opposite of the way I really feel but then I rather like my fallen angel 🙂

One row behind the fox on the far left, there sat the crow. Contrary to the other one, she was eating up the light completely. She was croaking every time she didn’t understand anything which was often. For a very long time, nothing. And then once, her eyes. 5 years later she’s still there as

This one is about living in the past and being unable to escape the future. Those are two #soviet #locomotives from the 1960s, a #ВЛ8 and the cut one is a #ЭР2. Some VL8 are perhaps still in use in Georgia or Azerbaijan but they’ve been broken up everywhere else.

Here is a work in progress of a shadow box I’m working on. I used the same figure as the previous train diorama I did, because that’s the same person and the same story. The train in an #ER2 which is a 1960s soviet electric train used mostly as an intercity from what I read

B2B I’m still raking some 5 years old memories and here’s one I’m not too fond of because it did me a lot of wrong. But I’d still forgive everything because I knew about the piano lessons.

Looking at pictures of Ukrainian refugees breaks my heart. Very egostically I guess it’s because they look and feel like my neighbours. The women wear the same puffy jackets and die their hair the same way they do at Chalon sur Saône or Lons le Saunier. They care for their pets the same way we

This is one of the tanks whose heads roll all over the East. This particular diorama was inspired by a series of pictures of a one who apparently rolled over in water, taking its crew with it in the deep. When they dragged it out the steep river, 2 guys obviously didn’t escape and were more or less

This is last week’s diorama’s twin brother, almost the same colours.

This diorama is about a friend that lives in a flat near the presidential Palace in Kyiv. She had to leave pretty fast leaving her dancing shoes behind. Now she lives in the country and since she’s a dreamer, she dances in unlikely places. This one is adapted on a picture I found on Internet.

I believe I saw enough military related stuff those past week, enough for a lifetime actually.

Another rather dreamy take on a #hplovecraft short story. Alternatively this diorama is about those grown ups who can’t get to sleep without their teddy bears.

This one came to me while discussing with several people about voyage and liberty. About going somewhere else terribly fast. This is a part of a #2тэ10м which is a early 1980s soviet diesel locomotive which seems to be quite present up to these days.

This is my new Lovecraft influenced diorama. I could have added sea monsters and tentacles and those will come at some point in another project when I find the right balance between what can look « unspeakable » and pulp influenced clichés. So here she just calls. The only thing I know is that the day someone

Being an avid Lovecraft reader since my teens, I finally found an opportunity to include his mythos inside my diorama making process. Here are the creatures from « The whisperer in Darkness » which is a 1931 short story. They are described like this : « They were pinkish things about five feet long; with crustaceous bodies bearing

I developed a deep interest in boring films when I turned about 20. That is, not *really* boring but movies that demand you to glue at their slow rhythm to be truly appreciated. One of my favorites is #sarunasbartas « 3 days ». You basically follow #katarinagolubeva during a.. well, 3 days errand probably in #kalilingrad #lithuania. The complete scenario holds on a

That diorama has a strange story since it sort of changed yesterday evening. The whole thing started with a dream I had of my fear of heights, being trapped on a small ledge outside closed cyclopean windows. When I started waking up, the scene changed and I saw her at that place looking at me from

based on a real picture of a crashed Mirage III during the Yom Kippur War in 1973

Back in the days when the internet was young and my hair was brown, Elena Filatova roamed the abandoned territories of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. She rode a big black motorcycle and was shooting approximative digital pictures while adding Nitzcheian aphorisms as legends. I really loved what she was about. She disappeared a few years

That was a diorama I first added on www.distant-shores.com, but it has definitely more to do here, being close to other dioramas like the ones  in the Baba Yaga series etc..

That was a diorama I first added on www.distant-shores.com, but it has definitely more to do here, being close to other dioramas like Rocket Girl etc..

Startoucher started in February and finished yesterday. I suppose it’s all about changing life and get another one that may be as rotten and hopeless as the one I left, and yet keeping in highest spirits. Really I believe I found the idea while listening to that Biosphere track, hence the name of the diorama.

I never got round publishing that one. A SBS should be issued in a magazine soonish.

Done roughly at the same time as Libertad. Less good though.

I can’t remember the name of that diorama. done after a 6 months pause during which I changed house. So it is somewhat less « fine » technically, than the last one I did before moving  (D day) but I believe the scene is better made.

My last boat related diorama to date. It took me about 7 years to complete.

The first of the series, one of a landmark diorama for me as I really started tweaking the colours from now on.

I always add that idea of people getting threatened by tombstones, since like when I was 15. 30 years later I came up with this one. The tombstones will be issued by Yenmodels as a set. The Dead Travel Fast come from Bram Stoker’s « Dracula ». This sentence is written in a weird cemetary on the

This must be one of the most depressive diorama I ever did. I believe Model time from Italy published the SBS

That was self imposed challenge, create a diorama in less than 8 hours on a child less Sunday. Well I managed! except for the painting of the figure that is. And I still like it !

Sort of inspired by the Capa picture. A bit unhappy with that one. Too wide.

This is actually one bit of the T-35 model I used for the Firebird diorama. The cormorans were homemade.

I absolutely love that diorama, the problem is that the resin ghost can’t hold it’s place and keeps on falling whatever process i use. So it is somehow stricken at the moment, though I don’t despair finding some time to repair it one day.

One of the very best dioramas I ever did. Article in a the Weathering Magazine special Effects issue

Featured in Abrams Squad magazine

It took me 5 years between the time I modeled the B-29 and the time someone finally accepted to print the decal of the girl, so many thanks Melius Manu !

Full article SBS in Air Modeler

Featured in a Water special of The Weathering Magazine

Everything completely scratchbuilt including the figure which is a (bad) portrait of my wife (!)

That diorama featured a portrait of Internet tycoon John McAfee and was more or less Lovecraft inspired. The horse’s skeleton was homemade. i believe it was a pretty good diorama, and yet when  presented it a local show (it took a bronze lol) I was suiprised to see at which point its colours were dull.

This is not the original name of that diorama. there was a complete SBS in The Weathering Magazine.

So colorful! My first try with Mr Paint inks.

A portrait of American politician John McCain Article and complete SBS in The Weathering Magazine

A full article step by step of that diorama was issued on The Weathering Magazine. This diorama is a take on  Ilya Repin’s painting What Freedom

Go in life and don’t forget to eat the roses. This is what’s left of a B-24 wreckage near Manchester (UK)  , I can’t remember what name I gave it at the moment..

I can’t believe I which point I missed the dusty effect at the font of the diorama. otherwise this was my last effort with homemade PE to date, now I prefer asking some more competent people to do it for me. I believe it is inspired by the Greenaway movie based on the Shakespeare play.

I was not terribly happy with that diorama. i believe the attempt to make moving thing static has its limits. Oh well, there was an article and complete SBS in Italian magazine in december 2012 issue of Model Time

Based on a Vietnam War era propaganda picture taken my the Communist North Vietnam that fascinated me when I fell on it when I was about 15. I actually entirely scratch build the F-105 front in 1/35. I never got so much insulted in my life for a diorama 😀 I was later contacted by

I attempted a portrait of Vladimir Putin on that one. There was my best feature ever and best article on a diorama I did on the sadly defunct The Modeler’s Annual

I found out I was working 2 days a week at about 1km where were built those fantastic Torpedo Boats built for the Turkish Sultan. I read a lot about the subject back then, and I believe the Gokcedäg was indeed sunken by Russian Torpedoes some time during WW1. Not  a bad one but I

The whole concept was to create a diorama that could capture the same vibe as Tarkosvi’s movie Stalker which is by far my favorite movie ever. i failed completely but thanks for viewing 🙂

can’t even think why after Tsushima which was quite an uplifting diorama, I choose to to that one, A Russian destroyer in 1905 after the Japanese went through. Perhaps it was because I wanted to sculpt an albatros. Still, I presented that one under the Nicolas Cabaret name and won an online competition which brought

This must be the first box diorama I ever did. Most of the recent ones are on www.distant-shores.com

Probably my best diorama, from quite a while ago The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell   From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flak

The Sokol, wtill one of my best works. all homemade

A complete reproduction of Russian cruiser Pamiat Azova in 1/35. And a few icebergs.

A French destroyer stranded and late destroyed by Turkish Forces in 1918. can’t remember the name of the boat. All the birds were homemade.

On the 24 & 25th of April 1980, the US forces launched a surprise attack on the Iranian Islamic Republic in the hope to free the hostages trapped for a considerable amount of time in their embassy.  Things didn’t went according to plans, and after a desert tempest the us forces left 8 servicemen dead.

..(follows the text on Fossil) When I posted the series of dioramas in the forums, the response was a bit like WTF. But then some people really liked them, and I even had a PM from a gentleman claiming he was part of the US Special Forces in the 80’s and that « everybody knew at

Still more of the Fossil series of 3 This diorama depicts a C-130 propeller with a dead crewman.  

The first really good diorama I did after the 6 years pause. Everything is scratchbuilt.

The one and only! My most succesful diorma ever. It featured on the cover of the Italian magazine Model Time even though I never actually saw the diorama. I still have about 20 hours of video rush SBS, but i suppose I will never do anything about it.  

Still to this day one of my preferred diorama. the girl was sculpted at home.

The diorama that started it all when it comes to colour management in my dioramas etc. Still riddled with incompetence.

Big work.. Everything scratchbuilt etc. Sadly the diorama more or less self destructed. I miss one of the guy’s head and the resin yellowed with time (Polyester resin, never use this stuff)

One of my first attempts to play with light. The bit of plane is a scratchbuilt TB-2 . Sorry for the frame it is terrible, it’s the second diorama I did after my 6 years hyatus

The first diorama I did after my 6 years pause between 1998 and 2004. This is actually a remake of a diorama i did with Prince August figures when i was a teen. It still somehow satisfies me, a bit too big..

From 1997, heavy drinking period. It survived 4 movings, columns are in not a great shape but the colours hold well

Completely inspired by the Rachel’s record « The Sea and the Bells » from 1996. This is probably the second diorama I did where I was really satisfied with myself. I won an award with that one apparently but never saw the colour of it 😀

My then girlfriend was living there. Oh well. Autant en emporte le vent. The polyester resin I used for that one turned sour at some point and the corners of the diorama actually raised. You shall on no account use this kind of resin.

I absolutely love that diorama, done under much clearer skies that they are today.

That one figured on Piano Magic‘s « There’s no need for us to be Alone » 7’