The Medieval Village Diorama

This is an on going project with a series of videos and turorials that shows you how I make a complete medieval village diorama. There is a lot of stuff to making a diorama like this and I will take you through the whole process. This is a project that continues on after the Massive Wall Diorama project. That one is a large diorama that mounts on the wall.

This page is the main page for this project and you will find all the various tutorials posted right here as I make them. So, you might want to bookmark this page and check in every once in a while to see what progress I have made, maybe pick up some nice diorama making tips.

May 20,2011 - I started working on the diorama yesterday and I have created a basic layout for some of the buildings. This is just to give me a general idea of what I am going to build and how it will look. The focus on this diorama is the various medieval buildings that make up the village. As I develop the diorama I will update this main picture so you can see at a glance if there is anything new. Jan 24, 2012 Here is an updated picture. This is where I currently am with the project.

The First Tutorial: Make a Peasant House - It has that nice stucco and beam look that were popular in the Middle ages and there are a few nice extras like a unique thatched roof, a flower pot under the window and a short stone base. How to Make a Medieval Peasant's House

The Second Tutorial: make a Medieval Tower. This building is larger but the basic structure is made the same as the peasants house. Where this one differs is in the stone work and in the shingled roof. I show you how to make a rubber mold and cast the stone work and how to make the shingled roof out of balsa wood. How to make a medieval tower

Third Tutorial: Plastering the surface terrain of the diorama - This is where the landscape takes it's shape. There are a few different ways to do this and achieve a realistic look. I use plaster cloth which is a great way to do it.

Part Four: Wiring up the diorama for lights and other things. I show you how to easily wire something like this up. We don't do the complete wiring.. That comes later. But there is some of this wiring that we have to do now before the diorama advances any further.

Pre-wiring the Diorama

Part Five: Texturing the buildings - I show you how to do the stucco/plaster look common among tudor era buildings and I also show you how to easily do granite like in a fortress. And I show you exactly what materials to use. Texturing the buildings

Part six: Making and adding the roofs - There are a whole lot of different ways to make roofs. I show you a few different techniques including casting in plaster. How to make the Medieval Building Roofs

Part 7: Sculpting and Casting Miniature Crates and Barrels -

I show you the complete process to make lots of miniature objects including how to sculpt, how to make rubber molds and how to cast them. Sculpting/casting barrels and crates

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