My Workbench

Monday, April 15, 2024

1/3000 Scale Isengard Diorama

The tower of Orthanc at 1/3000 scale is pretty small, just a bit over two inches. So I decided to build the entire Isengard compound, with flaming pits, timber towers and cranes of the uruk-hai.


The tiny tower of Orthanc on my template

The basic foam shape

The cavern cutouts

Vinyl plaster covering

Starting the enclosure. Wall sections are foam and bastions are fired cosclay

Making the bastions





Firing the bastions in my heat gun powered makeshift tea tin oven 


Making the wooden towers



Adding an uprooted tree

The cranes are in place and the tree root craters are done



The foliage is complete

Finished shot with the wooden base














This was a fun build















4 comments:

Lawrence H said...

That looks terrific Vol. Beautifully done with great details.

A Miniatures Hobby Room said...

Thanks Lawrence, it was fun to build

Anonymous said...

Really enjoying your LOTR terrain building!
Best Iain

A Miniatures Hobby Room said...

Thanks Iain. I have enjoyed working on them