The light wash over the zenithal highlighting makes me wonder how easily it would be to highlight all the edges with a black and get the aforementioned "Borderlands" cell shading look.
Fantastic. The Pinkerton's logo on flag is a neat touch. I hope that the miners know that the Pinkertons are probably there to spread dissent among the workers as usual. The combination of Wild West and Sci-Fi is really cool.
The tank contains a highly corrosive acid. The pipes go down to each level of the mines where there is a spigot, attached to which is what Is essentially an acid fire extinguisher used for killing the giant spiders that occasionally find their way into the mines from connected cave systems.
I usually wash the plastic model part s in Dawn Ultra dish detergent. Really cleans the slippery mold release from the parts leaving them squeaky clean. Also helps the paint adhere better. Love your builds!
Fun fact: the banning of Kinder Surprise eggs stems from an old law from the FDA around what constitutes food and what doesn’t, back when fake milk was being sold and kids were dying from that. The law affects the Kinder Surprise eggs because the toys are encased inside the chocolate…… Edit: nice build! It really was from scratch!
Mostly. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (the act under which Kinder Eggs are banned in the US) is generally seen as the founding of the FDA. So the law caused the FDA rather than the FDA causing the law. I consider the banning of Kinder Eggs to be an overreaction, but the act itself makes sense if you see what was being done 115 years ago. (Sawdust to bulk out foods was the least of the problems.)
Amazing as always. Almost every one of your builds makes me think of how much fun I would have lighting and filming your dios. They are always very well composed.
When I first subscribed it was for your Star Wars themed builds.. But now I find myself with post notifications on and watching every video you upload almost as soon as it's released! Keep up the awesome work!
I sell Kinder surprise eggs at my 7-11. They've been legal since 2017. What a weird flex for the US though, huh? "kinder eggs? Oh no, our citizens are too stupid/entitled to not eat a toy"
thank you for making videos i know you will most likely not see it but your videos are very calming and ure officially my new youtube safespace that i recommend everyone
I'm from Europe, and trust me... Kinder Surprise is a plague of death and devastation. You're so lucky. Amazing channel (I didn't know). When I saw the miniature on recommendation I through in Borderlands games, so when you have mentioned it, I've just feel like a exciting teen fan. Also, incredible work!
This is freaking outstanding!!! I was getting big thunder mountain railroad vibes the whole time while I was watching this! The paint application is simply bonkers. Watching you paint dioramas in this scale is a master class. The color of the rockwork and rusted old metal are so convincing. And let's just stick with mining liquid!
I think you get in just as much trouble smuggling Kinder eggs into the US as you do smuggling guns, not exaggerating either. I use to get the eggs from my family in Germany, good times.
The tank is for gold leaching. I often sit back in my chair and watch you build. Shame about Kinda eggs, we have them but they tend not to have kits any more.
This would probably be really difficult but would be cool as hell too see. Palpatine and Windu when Windu is deflecting the lighting back at Palpatine in revenge of the Sith.
This is a wonderful original piece, I like it a lot. It reminds me a little bit of "Firefly". Good old times... where Kinder surprise eggs were still allowed in the US ;-)
I once spent over £30 UK trying to get a Kinder surprise egg Toy Story gingerbread man. In the end I got one on ebay for £10. I subsequently dropped it on the floor and accidentally stood on it squashing the beejezus out of it. A life lesson learned - the hard way - but I'm biggered if I know what it is..
After watching this video along with your western mech model, I wonder what Ray Bradbury's classic sci-fi novel The Martian Chronicles would look like as a diorama. The House of Usher 2 would be beautiful againist a "Martian" background
Very cool idea, but I have to make a complaint. I watched this all the way to the end, and now I have to start watching Firefly again. Even the wife started singing the Jayne song, and now that's stuck in my head too. Thanks a lot. LOL. Seriously though, this is so darn cool.
Heeeeyyy another fellow Coloradan I’ve lived here my whole life and I can say it feels great to know someone else out there has a connection to those mines and loves the historical feel and look to them. I love your work man keep it up maybe we’ll run into each other one day lol
Hey Boylei, I love your builds. I just wanted to point out that the Pinkertons actually still exist and have been somewhat recently hired by the company Blizzard to retrieve a box of magic cards that a card opening youtuber or twitch streamer got ahold of about a month before that set of cards were to be released which was Blizzards fault for sending it to him to begin with. It was a bizzar story but funny.
First of the great Wild Imaginary West series! Cool. Just for information... "During the 20th century, Pinkerton rebranded itself into a personal security and risk management firm. The company has continued to exist in various forms through to the present day, and is now a division of the Swedish security company Securitas AB, operating as Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, Inc." "The company has its U.S. headquarters in Westlake Village, California."
I love old abandoned stuff from the 1800s. It is very interesting. I used to live in Arizona where there are a lot if mines. Thanks for the good video! Have a nice day.
Very nice scratch build. Currently I'm working on an N scale railroad diorama of Phantom Canyon Road in Colorado. There's not the best info on it, but I make it up along the way. Thanks for the inspiration!
Are we sure the spacemen are working for the Pinkerton detective agency ? Could be there trying to Hijack the miners Unobtainium . 😕 Seriously - I am really liking these fantasy what if dioramas 👍 keep em coming 💪😎👏
Wow, stunningly great diorama sir! As stated by others, strong Firefly vibes, especially with that music at the end. Just needs a couple scratch spaceships and it'd be perfect. I had thought that this was a much larger scale from the thumbnail. (What is the actual scale of the miners/spacemen?) Once I realized how tiny this is, my appreciation for your skills grows exponentially. Great stuff, thanks for sharing, and keep on keeping on!!
What is this tank for? Well, back in the original Star Trek TV series, there were lots of items on the wall that the set builders referred to as "GNDNs". "Goes nowhere, does nothing". But it looked cool. If you look closely enough you can see they vacuum-formed common household gadgets and tools and bottles/spray bottles et cetera. I love the stuff you add onto your dioramas - it adds a great level of detail that allows the viewer to use their imagination to figure out what it is all for. Well done!
I work at a museum in what used to be a mining town. We have a drum of what used to be sodium cyanide in one of the exhibits, since it could be used to dissolve precious metals. The idea was that the waste material could be dumped, and the dissolved metals could be extracted from the liquid later, using a separate process. So maybe that's what your vat of "mining liquid" is in this diorama.
Hello, I've watched several of your diorama builds and really like the style of mixing tech with old world. I have not heard you say the style has a Steam Punk look. Is that on purpose or do you feel the Steam Punk look is something different?
the tank itself could be filled with monster saliva from giant lizards or monster mountain goats. some of the monsters would have acidic glands, and that acid can help minera melt down rock and and other debree, because the metal in wild imaginary west can't be eaten by thsis acid, allow miners to quickly extract ore from rock. giving you a new profession. monster hunters but only monsters that offer usable things. i.e pelts and so on.
Just checked on the Pinkertons wikipedia article - goodness, their motto is "We never sleep". Lord that is creepy. Love the idea of having a few astronaut agents walk into that mine :D
The bands are called coops. Coopers is an old trade of simply making the metal bands around casks. That's why people with the last name Cooper are likely descended from these type of workers.
The tank is for mercury. It is often used in gold mining. The light houses in California used to use mercury in bearings but it was always being stolen and used for gold extraction.
only thing about on the fly is i find my self getting stuck by going overboard in the details. with a plan i still go overboard.. but i don't get stuck as i do on the fly.. lol. great build. you have a unique collection of various type dios. this is a really cool build and looks complicated yet it's a simple design.
The Pinkerton Agency was established to protect money and gold shipments sent by rail for the railroad barons. They were also tasked to hunt down and kill train robbers who got away.
Most people burn their finger with hot glue, me on the other hand lost all feeling of tempurature in my fingers after literally burning them with hot glue. I have been able to place a fresh squeezed line of glue on my hand and it not hurt at all.
Cowboys and Aliens is a movie that exists, not even a B movie, Daniel Craig is in it and some other instantly recognizable actors. Not a terrible movie honestly
The tank at 5:10 could be for water. Steam power was a thing and many mines used steam engines for pumping water out of flooded sections of the mine and they could also use it to power stuff as well.
Gold miners often use(d) mercury to seperate gold from ore so your little fellows there could have a tank of mercury setting in the middle of their camp!
Man way cool. I do love old mining places. Very awesome. Got to visit the old gold mines down in Creede Colorado and it's really something to see these things that people made over a hundred years ago. Was kinda calming to me looking at the left over buildings, rails, cable systems etc. Man I'm so glad the evil kinder egg things are outlawed here in the USA I will definitely be sleeping better tonight, thanks!
Maybe a little off topic but you got me thinking about the FireFly episode where the Mudders built a statue of Jane and worshiped him as a Hero. I can see it now, A group of strange travelers arrive in an old west town where the folk are praising the giant statue of an eerily familiar figure.
Agreed that this is like a “Firefly” scene - another great video/build, thanks for making modeling fun! Don’t need a $100 kit to make something amazing, just a great imagination, love how you just built on the fly
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The light wash over the zenithal highlighting makes me wonder how easily it would be to highlight all the edges with a black and get the aforementioned "Borderlands" cell shading look.
Hi
literally found this channel as a recommended on the side of one of your videos, while waiting for one of your newest ones. big fan.
Fantastic. The Pinkerton's logo on flag is a neat touch. I hope that the miners know that the Pinkertons are probably there to spread dissent among the workers as usual.
The combination of Wild West and Sci-Fi is really cool.
More of this please.
And I think Cali gold miners get a sunburn during their work, alaskan gold miners frost burn.
LOL that's funny except that you can't placer mine in the winter! Ground frozen, water frozen, mule frozen, miner frozen. 😁
@@CraigH999 Wild Subnautica Sub Zero West
No it's that Californian miners surf in their free time, but Alaskan miners just get eaten by grizzly bears or something.
@@jacobgoodstone7572 Meanwhile, at the Hoffman's camp.
The tank contains a highly corrosive acid. The pipes go down to each level of the mines where there is a spigot, attached to which is what Is essentially an acid fire extinguisher used for killing the giant spiders that occasionally find their way into the mines from connected cave systems.
So this is how the wild imaginary west was born! What a wonderful series, Im so glad you started it!!!
yep
Love the work, I’m an official fan boy. I’d love to see more of your imaginations come to life.
Would make a good outpost from the " Firefly "/ " Serenity " verse.
Just came to say the same thing.
Same here.. was also getting a kind of Trigun vibe too
it was the guitar for me that made me remember that gem.
The end music definitely gives it that feeling.
Would be awesome if he made a Firefly diorama
Wow I cant believe I've been watching all your wild imaginary west videos for over 2 YEARS! Now that's crazy
I usually wash the plastic model part s in Dawn Ultra dish detergent. Really cleans the slippery mold release from the parts leaving them squeaky clean. Also helps the paint adhere better. Love your builds!
I think the USA laws prohibit smthn inside an editable item. So it's not the toy, but the yellow capsule that is the issue with kinder surprise
I love the aesthetic of this Diorama. Space westerns hold a special place in my heart.
Fun fact: the banning of Kinder Surprise eggs stems from an old law from the FDA around what constitutes food and what doesn’t, back when fake milk was being sold and kids were dying from that. The law affects the Kinder Surprise eggs because the toys are encased inside the chocolate……
Edit: nice build! It really was from scratch!
Mostly. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (the act under which Kinder Eggs are banned in the US) is generally seen as the founding of the FDA. So the law caused the FDA rather than the FDA causing the law.
I consider the banning of Kinder Eggs to be an overreaction, but the act itself makes sense if you see what was being done 115 years ago. (Sawdust to bulk out foods was the least of the problems.)
I mean the kids could just shoot the fake milk with their guns. Problem solved.
The tank is obviously for the beer, c'mon!
Amazing as always. Almost every one of your builds makes me think of how much fun I would have lighting and filming your dios. They are always very well composed.
Thanks so much! I look at all your dioramas and think the same thing.
Awesome. I had no idea kinder eggs were illegal in the US. They're very popular here in Canada
When I first subscribed it was for your Star Wars themed builds.. But now I find myself with post notifications on and watching every video you upload almost as soon as it's released! Keep up the awesome work!
Very cool! Its so tiny. I think they are called “barrel loops”
Cowboy Times? Thats the new western themed restaurant where the cowboys come out and gun fight for your viewing pleasure right?
I sell Kinder surprise eggs at my 7-11. They've been legal since 2017.
What a weird flex for the US though, huh?
"kinder eggs? Oh no, our citizens are too stupid/entitled to not eat a toy"
Those kinder eggs are different from the kind sold in other countries.
Love it!! And also the Kinder Joy Egg story in the US. Here in Austria they still are legal and called Kinder Überraschungsei 😅
I'm honestly very surprised you didn't hollow out some of the foam for the mine but hey it still looks scarily awesome!!!!
„Kinderüberraschung“ is great! It should be worth to die for😉😂.
Die guten Ü-Eier 🤣
thank you for making videos i know you will most likely not see it but your videos are very calming and ure officially my new youtube safespace that i recommend everyone
This is good. I mean...really really good. It hit me at the end - Firefly! You gotta do a Firefly/Serenity inspired build!
I'm from Europe, and trust me... Kinder Surprise is a plague of death and devastation. You're so lucky.
Amazing channel (I didn't know). When I saw the miniature on recommendation I through in Borderlands games, so when you have mentioned it, I've just feel like a exciting teen fan. Also, incredible work!
Muito bom. Espetacular, fantástico. Que criatividade.
Nice!
Gives me a bit of a Firefly vibe.
You sure get a lot of mileage out of that plastic grid canvass. Fascinating what you can make with that stuff.
Very nice 🙂👍👍👍
This is freaking outstanding!!! I was getting big thunder mountain railroad vibes the whole time while I was watching this! The paint application is simply bonkers. Watching you paint dioramas in this scale is a master class. The color of the rockwork and rusted old metal are so convincing. And let's just stick with mining liquid!
When it's easier to buy a gun that a Kinder egg in the US...
Wait really? Why?
I think you get in just as much trouble smuggling Kinder eggs into the US as you do smuggling guns, not exaggerating either. I use to get the eggs from my family in Germany, good times.
So NASA employees watch Diorama videos. and I thought modern people had no taste.
Tends to happen when your government isn't trustworthy
They’re harder to choke on.
Great idea and - as usually - a great job, too. But no LED lighting ???? 😉 Greetings from Germany
The tank is for gold leaching. I often sit back in my chair and watch you build. Shame about Kinda eggs, we have them but they tend not to have kits any more.
one of those times we need a double thumbs up button. gonna go watch some Firefly.
Can confirm that the steel hoops used to cinch barrels are called, unsurprisingly, hoops.
After watching entire wild west build, i am here, and i realised there is no antennaaaaaa 😂❤️. Awesome build
The Astronaut: to infinity and beyond
That cowboy: there's a snake in my boot!
Man, even before priming the landscape it looked awesome
That informative bit about the kinder toys with your monotone voice was pretty funny
This would probably be really difficult but would be cool as hell too see. Palpatine and Windu when Windu is deflecting the lighting back at Palpatine in revenge of the Sith.
Loving this series. And I'm watching it backwards for some reason.
This made me think about the mineshaft level in this old strategy game named Desperado. A pretty cool one actually !
This is a wonderful original piece, I like it a lot. It reminds me a little bit of "Firefly". Good old times... where Kinder surprise eggs were still allowed in the US ;-)
Cool build, reminds me a lot of firefly.
bud this is so close to the Warhammer aesthetic. Nicely done!
Maybe do a diorama based on " For All Mankind" next time.
Thank you so much for these cowboy dystopian land it led me to create my own universe similar
Since I watched one vid i'm hooked , I love this wild west world you created
The music at the end is reminiscent of the firefly verse. Great series
I was getting Borderlands vibes from this before you said anything about it. I'd say you achieved the look very well!
I once spent over £30 UK trying to get a Kinder surprise egg Toy Story gingerbread man. In the end I got one on ebay for £10. I subsequently dropped it on the floor and accidentally stood on it squashing the beejezus out of it. A life lesson learned - the hard way - but I'm biggered if I know what it is..
After watching this video along with your western mech model, I wonder what Ray Bradbury's classic sci-fi novel The Martian Chronicles would look like as a diorama.
The House of Usher 2 would be beautiful againist a "Martian" background
Very cool idea, but I have to make a complaint. I watched this all the way to the end, and now I have to start watching Firefly again. Even the wife started singing the Jayne song, and now that's stuck in my head too. Thanks a lot. LOL. Seriously though, this is so darn cool.
Heeeeyyy another fellow Coloradan I’ve lived here my whole life and I can say it feels great to know someone else out there has a connection to those mines and loves the historical feel and look to them. I love your work man keep it up maybe we’ll run into each other one day lol
Hey Boylei, I love your builds. I just wanted to point out that the Pinkertons actually still exist and have been somewhat recently hired by the company Blizzard to retrieve a box of magic cards that a card opening youtuber or twitch streamer got ahold of about a month before that set of cards were to be released which was Blizzards fault for sending it to him to begin with. It was a bizzar story but funny.
First of the great Wild Imaginary West series! Cool. Just for information...
"During the 20th century, Pinkerton rebranded itself into a personal security and risk management firm. The company has continued to exist in various forms through to the present day, and is now a division of the Swedish security company Securitas AB, operating as Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, Inc." "The company has its U.S. headquarters in Westlake Village, California."
I love old abandoned stuff from the 1800s. It is very interesting. I used to live in Arizona where there are a lot if mines. Thanks for the good video! Have a nice day.
Very nice scratch build. Currently I'm working on an N scale railroad diorama of Phantom Canyon Road in Colorado. There's not the best info on it, but I make it up along the way. Thanks for the inspiration!
Are we sure the spacemen are working for the Pinkerton detective agency ? Could be there trying to Hijack the miners Unobtainium . 😕 Seriously - I am really liking these fantasy what if dioramas 👍 keep em coming 💪😎👏
So glad this was recommended for me. And you nailed it with the Kinder Eggs thing.
Muito bom 👍 ficou bem legal
Wow, stunningly great diorama sir! As stated by others, strong Firefly vibes, especially with that music at the end. Just needs a couple scratch spaceships and it'd be perfect.
I had thought that this was a much larger scale from the thumbnail. (What is the actual scale of the miners/spacemen?) Once I realized how tiny this is, my appreciation for your skills grows exponentially.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing, and keep on keeping on!!
Makes me think of 'Half life - gunman chronicles'. Do you remember it? Shooter with high-tech weapons, cowboys and dinosaurs all thrown together
What is this tank for? Well, back in the original Star Trek TV series, there were lots of items on the wall that the set builders referred to as "GNDNs". "Goes nowhere, does nothing". But it looked cool. If you look closely enough you can see they vacuum-formed common household gadgets and tools and bottles/spray bottles et cetera. I love the stuff you add onto your dioramas - it adds a great level of detail that allows the viewer to use their imagination to figure out what it is all for. Well done!
“They’re miners not minors!”
Strong Firefly Vibes. Love this man!
I work at a museum in what used to be a mining town.
We have a drum of what used to be sodium cyanide in one of the exhibits, since it could be used to dissolve precious metals. The idea was that the waste material could be dumped, and the dissolved metals could be extracted from the liquid later, using a separate process.
So maybe that's what your vat of "mining liquid" is in this diorama.
Hello, I've watched several of your diorama builds and really like the style of mixing tech with old world. I have not heard you say the style has a Steam Punk look. Is that on purpose or do you feel the Steam Punk look is something different?
the tank itself could be filled with monster saliva from giant lizards or monster mountain goats. some of the monsters would have acidic glands, and that acid can help minera melt down rock and and other debree, because the metal in wild imaginary west can't be eaten by thsis acid, allow miners to quickly extract ore from rock. giving you a new profession. monster hunters but only monsters that offer usable things. i.e pelts and so on.
Just checked on the Pinkertons wikipedia article - goodness, their motto is "We never sleep". Lord that is creepy.
Love the idea of having a few astronaut agents walk into that mine :D
You keeps to amaze me my friend! Loving this "freestyle" work!
Dude! That's frickin' sweet!
(What a New West California gold miner might say) 😉
Love the Kinder comments! So true, how dumb. I’ve save lots of the toys from Germany and have incorporated them into the hobby.
The bands are called coops. Coopers is an old trade of simply making the metal bands around casks. That's why people with the last name Cooper are likely descended from these type of workers.
The tank is for mercury. It is often used in gold mining. The light houses in California used to use mercury in bearings but it was always being stolen and used for gold extraction.
IF THIS GETS 10,000 LIKES YOU HAVE TO DO A FAVE REVAL
And love the vids keep up the good work
only thing about on the fly is i find my self getting stuck by going overboard in the details. with a plan i still go overboard.. but i don't get stuck as i do on the fly.. lol. great build. you have a unique collection of various type dios. this is a really cool build and looks complicated yet it's a simple design.
Hey, I love your content. I was wondering what wire snippets you were using to cut out the miners, I was looking for a pair just like them.
The Pinkerton Agency was established to protect money and gold shipments sent by rail for the railroad barons. They were also tasked to hunt down and kill train robbers who got away.
Tank's for Moonshine obviously! ;-)
Awesome build. I wish I had this kind of patience.
That tank is for internet, I heard they had some in Californee!
Anyway, great dio.
It kind of reminds me of Final Fantasy VII
Most people burn their finger with hot glue, me on the other hand lost all feeling of tempurature in my fingers after literally burning them with hot glue. I have been able to place a fresh squeezed line of glue on my hand and it not hurt at all.
Cowboys and Aliens is a movie that exists, not even a B movie, Daniel Craig is in it and some other instantly recognizable actors. Not a terrible movie honestly
I think that tank is filled with oxygen that can be pumped into the mines to make them safer for the miners.
Thats a logical answer
wow your new vids are way higher quality, maybe you could revisit some older builds like this and do them justice
The tank at 5:10 could be for water. Steam power was a thing and many mines used steam engines for pumping water out of flooded sections of the mine and they could also use it to power stuff as well.
Gold miners often use(d) mercury to seperate gold from ore so your little fellows there could have a tank of mercury setting in the middle of their camp!
Man way cool. I do love old mining places. Very awesome. Got to visit the old gold mines down in Creede Colorado and it's really something to see these things that people made over a hundred years ago. Was kinda calming to me looking at the left over buildings, rails, cable systems etc.
Man I'm so glad the evil kinder egg things are outlawed here in the USA I will definitely be sleeping better tonight, thanks!
Very Brave Starr/ Trigun/Firefly feel, LOVE IT
Maybe a little off topic but you got me thinking about the FireFly episode where the Mudders built a statue of Jane and worshiped him as a Hero. I can see it now, A group of strange travelers arrive in an old west town where the folk are praising the giant statue of an eerily familiar figure.
The tank is for water. The hard working californian gold miners do need to drink after all.
The pipes lead down to some levels of the mine with a tap.
Greetings from Pueblo. Thoroughly enjoy the channel!
Guitar strings - cool. I'm a player too and often find uses for them in my builds.
"i dont know what this tank is for, maybe some kind of mining liquid" wait they frack in the weird west too??
This is a really good model. I enjoy watching this kinda content form your TH-cam channel.
you should really get a few more up close detail shots! love it ive been watching all ur vids keep it up!
Agreed that this is like a “Firefly” scene - another great video/build, thanks for making modeling fun! Don’t need a $100 kit to make something amazing, just a great imagination, love how you just built on the fly
Awesome build! Great sense of humor as well. Haha. Cheers from a fellow 303 modeler.
A+ on creativity! Again an amazing scenery, the painting makes it come alive.I really like it!
Thank you for the shout out, much appreciated! Build is great too by the way.