North Of The Border

Death Stranding is a game about being a postman in a post apocalyptic world. A post-apocalyptic postie, if you will. While I'm not wholely convinced of the gameplay, I can't deny that it is one of the most visually stunning games I've played in a long time, and the spooky tarry apparitions (Oh, Kojima) make for a great monster. The first time I ran into them, they gave me all the spooks. So I thought I should try making a desktop dioroma! It measures 125mm in diameter, and the bodies are roughly to a 15mm scale.

Horizon Zero Dawn is a delightful game about finding a bluetooth earpiece and hunting robot dinosaurs. I didn't realize how badly I needed robo-dinosaurs in my life until I played me some HZD. Check it out and see how easy it is to make one for yourself! No 3D printer needed!

I love me a good floating island. Give me a fantasy setting and put some floating islands and you've got me hook, line, and sinker. So I done made myself one with a little waterfall trickery.

Ghost of Tsushima is a stunningly beautiful game and the swan song for the PS4. Man, what a way to go out. This is my tribute to a beautiful game and a wonderful samurai duel!

Frank Herbert's Dune is a masterpiece of world building and story telling, and with a new movie on the horizon, I thought what better time to make my own Shai Hulud! This is my largest build yet and is entirely made from scratch! Let me know what you think and what else you'd like to see!

Hearthstone is a brilliantly frustrating game with incredible art. I think I might enjoy playing the game less than admiring the artwork, so I decided to make a Hearthstone table, complete with a full hardwood table, packs of cards, equipment for adventuring, and a wee snack.

Ragnaros is my favourite card in Hearthstone, hands down. He's got great art, his entrance audio is the best, and he's a prime candidate for the most clenching you can achieve in a game. So who better to bring to life than the Firelord himself?

I have adored Avatar since the first episode I watched. It's clever, fun, funny, and a great romp. Oh, it's also got a dope magical world and incredible animation. What better to make then, then a diorama of our boy Aand doing his thing?

I love the idea of big animals carrying entire worlds on their backs. You can probably blame Terry Pratchett for that, but I think even before I was aware our world was being carried on the backs of elephants riding a space turtle, I loved the idea; however, there don't seem to be that many examples of it floating around (no pun intended) the internet, so I thought I might as well make my own!

Let's make an imperial star destroyer from scratch! Built out of nothing but plasticard, glue, and a little filler, you can make your own awesome star wars diorama easily! This was a really fun and quick build and it didn't use much more than plasticard, rocks from my garden, a little plaster, and some resin for the water.

I figured if this is my first ever book nook, then I may as well pick some of the best books you can nook: the Stormlight Archives. Learn to make your own Words of Radiance inspired Book Nook and sculpt your own tiny, adorable, horrifying chasm fiend!

In this build I show you how to sculpt the world serpent form God of War. Jormungandr is a huge serpect that circles the entirety of Midgard, and he plays a very important role in 2018's God of War. Oh, and to really give him a sense of scale, I also made an itty-bitty, teenie-weenie Kratos and Atreus!

As long as anyone can remember, the Falling Blossoms Shinto Shrine has always been there. Who tends to it? Who keeps it from falling apart? Surely they don't just scale the cliff wall during low tide!

Eventually everyone makes a Lord of the Rings Book Nook, so here's my version inspired by The Hobbit, complete with a custom sculpted Smaug and Bilbo!

We're back with another book nook, only this time it's The Wall from Game of Thrones, complete with a fully functioning gate! There's a million and one Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings book nooks, but there don't seem to be any from a Song of Ice and Fire, so I aim to fix that!

"They call him Baba Yaga, and he is the one you sent to kill the **** boogeyman!" John Wick is one of the greatest action films of the last decade, and maybe ever (in my humble opinion). So I couldn't think of a better way to show my appreciation than to make a scratch built diorama from my favourite scene in the entire movie.

This is my homage to Godzilla: King of Monsters. It was meant to be a (scratch build) diorama, but by using ridiculously bright lights, it became a sweet desk lamp. It was also a great opportunity to make resin free water, for those who don't want to worry about pours, cures, and bubbles!

Learn how to make your own Breezehome for your bookshelf! This is my Skyrim inspired book nook, taken straight out of Whiterun! Completely scratch built using nothing more than things you can find lying around the internet!

This is my Wookiee Tree (AKA Wroshyr Tree) from Star Wars--the Wroshyr are massive trees that grow on Kashyyyk and are where you'll find a wookie city. This one is made almost entirely from toilet paper and clay. I don't know if that's canon or not, but I'd like to think that there's a semblance of truth to it.

I've wanted to use mirrors to make an infinity box for a while, and I figured what would make for a better setting than the Great Hall from the Mines of Moria (aka Dwarrowdelf)? It's the smallest book nook I've made, with the fewest 'components', but I think it might be the best one yet, if I don't say so myself (and I do).

Check out how I sculpted Skyrim's Alduin, the World Eater! What better way to close out 2020 than to sculpt a big ol' fire breathing dragon?