Final Stand In the Mines of Moria Diorama

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8 ай бұрын

#Diorama #LOTR #Moria
This week, I created a Mines of Moria diorama featuring some of the first Games Workshop minis that I ever painted. This group of dwarves is making their final stand on a bridge as swarms of goblins close in around them.
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@zachariahtri 8 ай бұрын

The darkness with the torchlight, the layered way you did the pillars, the layout of the miniatures. Just truly incredible. I would love to see more of this in the future :)

@TheMajorStranger 8 ай бұрын

The flickering light is what truly make this Diorama. It's so cool.

@earlware4322 8 ай бұрын

Totally agree!! The flickering LEDs do a lot to sell the idea of torchlight.

@iain-duncan 8 ай бұрын

Lighting is one of the surest ways to elevate any diorama imo. Same thing applies video games, just look at minecraft with a ray tracing mod and you'll see what I mean.

@SlartiMarvinbartfast 8 ай бұрын

It's fantastic - the flickering lights really help to highlight the highly evocative sensation of depth and darkness. It's a masterpiece.

@shanbyrt 8 ай бұрын

I would love to see more Lord of The Rings dioramas as a collector myself I love to see these.

@Eowyn3Pride 8 ай бұрын

...yessss preciousssss!

@theomsb 8 ай бұрын

something like a Helms Deep diorama would be amazing

@LightsCameraAnts 8 ай бұрын

This looks like an actual movie set! That’s wild!!

@jamal_6981 7 ай бұрын

Ayoo its the Ants guy

@wallabaatar 8 ай бұрын

Love hearing you talk about your “roots”. I’m sure “Boylei” as a boy would be unbelievably excited to know where this passion would take him as an adult! And I love anything LOTRs that you do! Great build Boylei!

@purpleguy2486 28 күн бұрын

ha BOYlei

@chriscooper654 8 ай бұрын

Gandalf reading the last words of the dwarf- colony's record is one of the most ominous, tragic scenes in the first book. This diorama is a great tribute to that; you captured the desperate rage of the dwarves, the malevolent triumph of the orcs and the brooding majesty of Moria very well. For further use of this setting, you might try a scene showing whatever it was that Pippin's dropped stone disturbed, or even Gandalf pursuing the Balrog through the burrows of the Nameless Things...

@CinHalCedHerChance 17 сағат бұрын

Pippin's stone disturbed a cave troll.

@charlessapp1835 8 ай бұрын

Can you please do another Yellowstone diorama with an erupting geyser? I want to do one, but have no idea how to do it. Love your modeling skills and the Wild Imaginary West!

@charlessapp1835 8 ай бұрын

I love it when you do Lord of the Rings stuff! So inspiring!

@wew7884 8 ай бұрын

"let me know in the comments if you would like to see more LOTR" YES DUDE PLEASE I love lotr so much

@ducatisti 8 ай бұрын

I'm currently struggling to create some layered depth in a diorama. My brain has a very hard time with the whole 3D layers thing and I have started over more times than I care to mention. This video was perfectly timed for me, and now I'm headed back to the workshop with new ideas and techniques. Wish me luck!

@DesertOwlForge 8 ай бұрын

Check out Light Box Life, her work is very well represents the idea of depth and how to create layers. Sometimes you have to think inside the box. 😉

@ducatisti 8 ай бұрын

@@DesertOwlForge Thank you, I'll go check out her feed!

@mistac5050 8 ай бұрын

Man what a cool and immersive build. It reminds me of the book nook that you made with the lions years ago. And I loved hearing your touching tale about your earlier LotR days.

@debbralehrman5957 8 ай бұрын

This is awesome. Love the work you do. I'm a LOTR fan so I did enjoy nostalgia as well the diorama.

@ThrashinToOblivion 8 ай бұрын

Excellent diorama! I would love to see more LOTR builds in future, I’ve always been a fan of all of your LOTR dioramas, they’re fantastic! Have a great week Boylei!

@lordbarron3352 8 ай бұрын

I have an idea you might really like; layer the pillars in a mirror "sandwich" (like those infinite corridor illusions) to get the endless effect of moria.

@fancymichael6113 8 ай бұрын

This is fuc*ing awesome! And the deepts and blackness, only the torches light in the dark. Fantastic idea and outstanding job!

@echodelta2426 8 ай бұрын

Love it. No apology is necessary for the shout out to your gaming friends and family. Without them you may not have started this channel for us to watch.

@heyitsLOOOU 2 ай бұрын

the torches were such an amazing add

@katmom49 8 ай бұрын

The depth is fabulous!

@tomtruesdale6901 8 ай бұрын

That is an intense diorama, lots of action and the details are first class.

@klatuk4u1 8 ай бұрын

Definitely would love to see more LOTRs stuff alongside your Imaginary West

@Garridotattoos 3 ай бұрын

“And they called it a mine,…a mine!”😎🎬🔥🔥

@DoubleBrushPainting3Dprinting 8 ай бұрын

Every video I think "has reached the maximum of skill" and systematically in the next video you surpass yourself!

@simonmoore3571 8 ай бұрын

This is your most touching episode yet

@blindcat97 8 ай бұрын

I definitely would love to see more LOTR stuff

@drlimoges 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the way you model kindness and "sharing the wealth" of your popularity in the KZfaq community by promoting other channels like @lightboxlife.

@magnifig4366 8 ай бұрын

Yes please, would like to see more LotR in your style !

@robstults78 8 ай бұрын

Yes, I want to see more stuff like this! Along with your wild imaginary west you will be unstoppable!

@captainmagic91 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful. Yes, absolutely more. Of this an everything!!

@jackcade6344 8 ай бұрын

Definitely more MESBG / LOTR builds! 😍

@neal_schrodetzki 8 ай бұрын

MORE (ia) Great job as always. What an age we live in where I can watch you perfect your craft. Great work and please continue.

@smoessmee 4 ай бұрын

This is the kind of thing that's making me start building stuff for a Moria campaign. I might have to do some dioramas to get teh epic feeling as the battlefields will have to be a lot more open so they'll actually work for my ruleset.

@MrFacepunch33 8 ай бұрын

Yes! I for one will take all the LotR videos you can possibly give us.

@Technotroni 2 ай бұрын

you have the best hooby and skill 100%

@SuperGalfrieg12 8 ай бұрын

My favorite movie, then when I saw my favorite diorama youtuber make this video I got so excited. Just watched the second movie last night, I’m rewatching the series for the gazillionth time lol

@---fy4ln 3 ай бұрын

I can't stop thinking how awesome it would be if you could somehow suddenly light up the shadows in the background revealing the balrog at intervals

@douglascarroll3754 8 ай бұрын

I remember painting this exact Warhammer set (the goblins) when I was young. Great memories.

@kabuki7038 8 ай бұрын

I'd love to see anything more fantasy or medieval, even if it's just LOTR stuff as I love that too

@generaljarjar5819 8 ай бұрын

Hear me out. Do a canyon diorama with bandits and a wagon train and Maybe another mech to protect the train like you did in the river crossing. Love your work man. Keep it up. LJ

@tyshingleton7005 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Hats off to you sir.

@Vegvysyr 8 ай бұрын

Very atmospheric, and yes, I would like to see more-ia!

@dexteradams3392 3 ай бұрын

I like your narration. Lord Of The Rings is special to my family as well. Seeing these dioramas is really neat. Very good work.

@lukeman4566 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for all of your videos. Jesus loves you all, take care of yourself

@CrimsonCheshir 25 күн бұрын

Godbless lovely 💙! Godbless!

@TheOverlordi 8 ай бұрын

Yes. Pls more Moria! There are far to less LotR channels for TT!

@jasoncoates1835 8 ай бұрын

I loved these minis when they came out too! I was in college trying to work a side hustle as a freelance pro mini painter. I did a bunch of stuff from the range for myself and clients and ended up winning a GW contest for some of it. Still have a bunch of the swag from the prize package, model prop helmets from Weta and whatnot. Fun times. Love seeing these things in action here, excellent work on this diorama as always! I never did have a knack for sculpting, just the painting... And speaking as a former "pro," a pizza box is correct. All of my competition models were primed on pizza boxes too. It helps. Somehow.

@HolyToilet1 8 ай бұрын

I think this is my favorite of all your projects 😮

@KurtWal1 6 ай бұрын

Love to see you recreate the iconic map room scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indy uses the staff of Ra to reveal the location of the Ark of the Covenant!

@annbrookens945 8 ай бұрын

Not gonna complain about this; I loved lotr movies! This is a great diorama!

@niklaseriksson3343 8 ай бұрын

yes please! More LOTR-stuff! would love to see a lit up Balrog diorama.

@charlessapp1835 8 ай бұрын

He did one a few years ago.

@ImmersiveReactions 2 ай бұрын

A big reflective mirror in the back or a painting of the hall that looks like it continues into the darkness would be cool

@jamess.2599 8 ай бұрын

Always a good day when you have a new video up.

@givetanks 8 ай бұрын

Wow - this really evokes emotion, I might have to watch the film series again!

@TeamPlayer___ 8 ай бұрын

Lord of the Rings is what also brought me into the hobby world, which makes this diorama one of my favorites over the past few years. Especially love the lighting. Superbly done!

@robertfrancojr.7556 8 ай бұрын

Once again you have blown my mind. thank you.

@edibleapeman 8 ай бұрын

You can pay no higher compliment to your younger self than to respectfully upglow older models. You unlocked a handful of core memories for me over the course of this one - no need AT ALL to apologize to us for "getting sentimental." What a beautiful video. Thank you for it.

@Froxiyahu 8 ай бұрын

I love LOTR so much, and like you I've started painting MESBG minis just for the fun of painting anything related to LOTR and with that I also started playing it!!! and now I'm guiding demos at my local hobby shop once a month and I enjoy every moment

@scribbleknit 8 ай бұрын

Brilliant make! And yes, would love to see more of this!

@TomJones0065 8 ай бұрын

Well first off, I LOVE all your work and Your Ideas, But for me I LOVE Lord Of The Rings ANYTHING! So YES YES more of it PLEASE!!!

@op4000exe 8 ай бұрын

More LOTR stuff would be neat.

@nils-peterwihlney8732 8 ай бұрын

"Drums, drums in the deeps.... They are coming." Loved this diorama and the story. I love Lord of the Rings and I got some goblin minis myself, as well as a cave drake. I am eager to see more stuff like this.

@Z64dollarsign8 8 ай бұрын

Yes, we would like to see more like this.

@OomPapaMaoMao 8 ай бұрын

As a Tolkien Dwarf enthusiast. Thank you for this!

@TK-421_66 8 ай бұрын

This makes me want to see your take on the Balrog hitting the water with Gandalf in pursuit.

@TheNickLavender 4 ай бұрын

I love the diorama! Great job! Something that would have been super cool, is if between the two pillars, you had a background that was backlit showing the silhouette of the Balrog in the distance or something of that nature that would come on now and then. That would have been insane!

@jeffreyyoung4104 8 ай бұрын

Excellent! I would suggest using hidden footlights at the front bottom of the diorama. Either the same flicker lamps or just amber lamps, to cast the shadows of the men up and onto the backdrop of the diorama, and to light up the men as well.

@magsainsley7490 8 ай бұрын

We should always make miniatures for our child selves ❤❤❤

@celethorn2530 8 ай бұрын

As a big fan of lotr and all games workshop games I would love to see more lotr (or perhaps Warhammer) dioramas

@nickmoore9653 5 ай бұрын

This is beautiful. You captured the emotion of a moment like this perfectly! Dwarven content is always a welcome sight!

@Seal9382 4 ай бұрын

Wow, very impressive. The layering is great and the torches made the scene pop out. I wish I had your eye because I would love to have made some of your diorama's myself.

@itsabughunt6310 8 ай бұрын

Your narration was meaningful! More please!

@chrisodb7189 8 ай бұрын

Love the build, especially the depth of it. Would like to see more.

@georgelohman5358 8 ай бұрын

I love your work. I would love to see more Moria or LOTR stuff in general! I was just getting into minis and table top games when the movies came out. This definitely took me back.

@athisio836 8 ай бұрын

I hope you expand this one like you are with the western town.

@alvarogarciagarcia1877 8 ай бұрын

This is awesome!!! LOTR is the best saga

@iky069 8 ай бұрын

Wow! I really would like to see more of this. Fantastic job!

@usnamunav 8 ай бұрын

Your styrene organizer thing is awesome... thanks for some inspiration.

@Enoxix. 8 ай бұрын

I always watch these video's on my TV! The size makes it so much better!

@littlie_fella 8 ай бұрын

i want to try a diorama sooo bad after watching ur vids

@SteelHand071 8 ай бұрын

The atmosphere that the flickering torches provide is just the icing on the cake for your diorama

@battleonize 8 ай бұрын

This is awesome! Would love to see a scene from Helms Deep or Rivendell for the next LOTR diorama.

@wafflexboy 8 ай бұрын

if you did daily uploads of LotR stuff i would watch every one of them

@bensawyer3276 8 ай бұрын

Love the LOTR projects Boylei! Watched this while painting some Khazad Dum dwarves!

@paultanker5606 8 ай бұрын

G'day once again Squire, Brilliant as always, being a Devotee to LOTR since the early 60s!

@BlareWolfgang 8 ай бұрын

2:18 “And they call it a mine. A *MINE*!” -Chuckles in dwarf

@tresemiselada3828 8 ай бұрын

Def more LOTR stuff in future please! Along with wild west

@Yashu1105 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful looking diorama

@RahhmiPoofs 8 ай бұрын

I definitely WOULD like to see more Mines of Moria stuff thinking some blue lights or something should be on the back of the pillars to light up the back of the mine.... looks like it would be best self illuminating.

@joelhicks5162 8 ай бұрын

I love the layered depth to this build. Thanks for the channel recommendation, too!

@shaneflickinger 8 ай бұрын

Very atmospheric. Well done sir.

@captainbobey 8 ай бұрын

This looks really cool, I'm sure it's been done to death, but one of those infinite mirror setups would work very well for the sprawling caverns of Moria

@jkessler99 8 ай бұрын

Would LOVE to see more! I also think the protective mixture you used on the diorama as a base made the whole thing look weathered which is awesome

@williambothel1776 8 ай бұрын

Love your channel, you are truly and artist, and I enjoy your stories too. Keep it up and thsnk you

@AndrewKuntzman 8 ай бұрын

Wow that’s epic.

@andrewwilson3587 8 ай бұрын

We most definitely want more.

@SilverOasisEntertainment 8 ай бұрын

I need more of this in my life. Please do (if you haven't already) the Lonely Mountain entrance

@calebbilling4984 8 ай бұрын

My introduction to TT as a whole came from the hobby magazine GW did for Lord of the rings- Battle Games in Middle Earth. I still have those magazines kept safe, because they had some of the most useful tutorials for terrain I've ever seen. They'd come with a complimentary mini, sometimes more than one, and the magazine would walk through things step by step. Assembly, painting, a bit of background and lore, a mission involving the mini, and most important of all for me- the terrain section. If it weren't for those magazines, I wouldn't have bought GW's Blue Book of terrain (later on I bought the older, Red book too), and without those I wouldn't have cemented my love for DIY terrain.

@Boyer316 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely wonderful

@ImNtDead 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely awesome I hope you named each one of those dwarf heroes. Their tale deserves to be told.

@_ixx_1159 8 ай бұрын

These mine dioramas are the best

@johnnydoe66 8 ай бұрын

I think a combination of your imaginary west and LotR would be cool. Maybe some unsuspecting miners about to bust through into the underworld. On the opposite side, there's a hoard of goblins awaiting to attack and be released into the world above.