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 :)
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.
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!
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...
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
You are very talented. I get tons of inspiration from you videos. No need to apologize for your narratives, it's one reason I keep coming back to watch you.
"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.
Man this is epic. I love being able to explore as-of-yet unseen lands in fictional worlds through lenses such as these. Was wondering what the music used was though?
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!
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
This is so cool. The way the torches flicker adds so much atmosphere to the scene than it would if you'd just had static lights. I love LOTR and would love to see more content like this.
Sweet work on this. This is similar to a backburner project I've had in mind for a long time. Not a permanent diorama for my gaming minis, but a setting for use of photography to showcase my minis work. Thanks to this video, there's some good influence on how to do an interior scene.
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.
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.
Love the details in these fantasy dioramas. It would be cool if there were board games out there like this. Even cooler if somehow could play a board game like this online
LotR and Star Wars are two of the great loves of my life, and I am always willing to see more of them! Your Old West stuff is amazing, too! Thanks for being an inspiration.
I like the way the tunnel was built up in layers. I've used tea lights before, but I never thought about removing the LED and using it separately. Great diorama!
This gave me an idea. To make an entire diorama like this one with a network of tunnels on a part of the wall in my room or EVEN BETTER, to insert this diorama into an IKEA bookshelf. I'll just need to 3D print lots of orcs and paint them and figure a way to connect all those torch LED but honestly it's worth the patience, this is so great!
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.
I've started my hobby journey when the first set of GW's Lord of the Rings miniatures came out after the first movie and goblins were among the first things I painted with my brother when I was 11, since then I've been in love with Lotr and the hobby. This brought back memories and a sweet nostalgic feeling. Thank you Boylei and as always fantastic job on the diorama and minis!
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.
Thank you for the way you model kindness and "sharing the wealth" of your popularity in the TH-cam community by promoting other channels like @lightboxlife.
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.
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
While my friends were painting space marines I was obsessed with the lord of the rings models. I even made my own “Balin’s tomb”. This was super nostalgic, thanks!
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
Lord of the Rings is always a great subject for dioramas and, once again, you did an incredible job of creating a memorable scene. Your techniques are amazing and, coupled with your imagination, always make for some compelling dioramas. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to more Lord of the Rings based dioramas.
My wife bought me a map of Moria while we were dating! That's how I knew she was the one. Lord of the Rings is my favorite story, and A Journey in the Dark is my favorite chapter! Always love seeing LotR content from you! Thank you!
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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 :)
The flickering light is what truly make this Diorama. It's so cool.
Totally agree!! The flickering LEDs do a lot to sell the idea of torchlight.
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.
It's fantastic - the flickering lights really help to highlight the highly evocative sensation of depth and darkness. It's a masterpiece.
I would love to see more Lord of The Rings dioramas as a collector myself I love to see these.
...yessss preciousssss!
something like a Helms Deep diorama would be amazing
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!
ha BOYlei
This looks like an actual movie set! That’s wild!!
Ayoo its the Ants guy
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...
Pippin's stone disturbed a cave troll.
Ur shoutout to ur table top gaming peeps made my heart smile.
I love it when you do Lord of the Rings stuff! So inspiring!
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!
That's sooo cool. I could cry, rembering the pain Gimli must have felt when finding them
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!
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. 😉
@@DesertOwlForge Thank you, I'll go check out her feed!
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.
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!
That is an intense diorama, lots of action and the details are first class.
That looks spectacular, a LOTR diorama is always great.
Very impressive! I have a collection of D&D figures from when I was a kid. Brought me back.
"let me know in the comments if you would like to see more LOTR" YES DUDE PLEASE I love lotr so much
The atmosphere that the flickering torches provide is just the icing on the cake for your diorama
Absolutely awesome I hope you named each one of those dwarf heroes. Their tale deserves to be told.
yes please! More LOTR-stuff! would love to see a lit up Balrog diorama.
He did one a few years ago.
This is beautiful. You captured the emotion of a moment like this perfectly! Dwarven content is always a welcome sight!
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.
The depth is fabulous!
You are very talented. I get tons of inspiration from you videos. No need to apologize for your narratives, it's one reason I keep coming back to watch you.
I love this stuff beats the heck out of 1970’s model kits I grew up up with. Great job!
I always watch these video's on my TV! The size makes it so much better!
"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.
I love the little bit of Boylie Story Time about you playing the game with friends and family!
Man this is epic. I love being able to explore as-of-yet unseen lands in fictional worlds through lenses such as these. Was wondering what the music used was though?
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Yeah I was wondering about the music as well. Can we get a link please?
I watch your channel for ideas in terrain building for my D&D campaigns, and the witty commentary of course. This was great, love the shadow box idea.
The flickering lights on the pillars beautiful touch definitely do more like these.
the music with the way the diorama is just is amazing.
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!
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
Yes please, would like to see more LotR in your style !
Super cool nostalgia build...
It brings LotR and the lighting from the final season of GoT together... 😂
This is so cool. The way the torches flicker adds so much atmosphere to the scene than it would if you'd just had static lights. I love LOTR and would love to see more content like this.
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
Sweet work on this. This is similar to a backburner project I've had in mind for a long time. Not a permanent diorama for my gaming minis, but a setting for use of photography to showcase my minis work. Thanks to this video, there's some good influence on how to do an interior scene.
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.
Love it! That old Lotr miniatures game is what got me into miniatures and the model making hobby.
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.
Yes, I want to see more stuff like this! Along with your wild imaginary west you will be unstoppable!
Love the details in these fantasy dioramas. It would be cool if there were board games out there like this. Even cooler if somehow could play a board game like this online
LotR and Star Wars are two of the great loves of my life, and I am always willing to see more of them! Your Old West stuff is amazing, too! Thanks for being an inspiration.
I’ll never forget seeing lotr in theaters and being absolutely stunned by the size of Moria
I like the way the tunnel was built up in layers. I've used tea lights before, but I never thought about removing the LED and using it separately. Great diorama!
those minis were my first step into the hobby! I had no clue what I was doing and had noone to play with but I still loved them so much :)
I love the layered depth to this build. Thanks for the channel recommendation, too!
The depth and llighhting of this diorama made it reallly stand out. I love Lord of the Rings, this was badass.
I love watching these videos while I try to sleep, I just wish they were longer and showed more of the process
This gave me an idea. To make an entire diorama like this one with a network of tunnels on a part of the wall in my room or EVEN BETTER, to insert this diorama into an IKEA bookshelf. I'll just need to 3D print lots of orcs and paint them and figure a way to connect all those torch LED but honestly it's worth the patience, this is so great!
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.
That diorama impress me as deep in my heart as deep halls of the Moria...
Love the Darkness lit up by the Flickering Torches ...Very Effective.
you have the best hooby and skill 100%
This looks amazing. Flicking touch lights make it look alive!!
I've started my hobby journey when the first set of GW's Lord of the Rings miniatures came out after the first movie and goblins were among the first things I painted with my brother when I was 11, since then I've been in love with Lotr and the hobby. This brought back memories and a sweet nostalgic feeling. Thank you Boylei and as always fantastic job on the diorama and minis!
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.
Fantastic work. The miniature wargame that these figures are from is one of the best rulesets around too!
Definitely one of my favorite designs. The cave/castle type diorama, very cool
I like your narration. Lord Of The Rings is special to my family as well. Seeing these dioramas is really neat. Very good work.
Dude. When the music came on and you switched on the LEDs at the end. Chills.
Thank you for the way you model kindness and "sharing the wealth" of your popularity in the TH-cam community by promoting other channels like @lightboxlife.
Your styrene organizer thing is awesome... thanks for some inspiration.
Beautiful. Simply beautiful. Hats off to you sir.
Once again you have blown my mind. thank you.
Very atmospheric, and yes, I would like to see more-ia!
Love the build, especially the depth of it. Would like to see more.
I definitely would love to see more LOTR stuff
As a long time LOTR fan, from the times when it was only known from the books, I find this diarama to be totally badass. Keep up the excellent work.
Having just re-watch the original trilogy I greatly enjoyed watching this build and the excellent final result. Thanks!
LOTR is such a classic Trilogy.. great diorama!
Not gonna complain about this; I loved lotr movies! This is a great diorama!
This is awesome. Love the work you do.
I'm a LOTR fan so I did enjoy nostalgia as
well the diorama.
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.
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.
Such simple techniques yield such an amazing atmosphere and finish, well done!!! More people need to bond through these kinds of hobbies.
This is fuc*ing awesome! And the deepts and blackness, only the torches light in the dark. Fantastic idea and outstanding job!
YES! Please do more Mines of Moria, and any LoTR content. This turned out so great.
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
Brilliant make! And yes, would love to see more of this!
Yes! I for one will take all the LotR videos you can possibly give us.
Thank you so much for all of your videos. Jesus loves you all, take care of yourself
Godbless lovely 💙! Godbless!
Excellent work! I especially like the doorway and the goblins coming down the stairs through it.
Any middle earth content is fantastic content in my book
While my friends were painting space marines I was obsessed with the lord of the rings models. I even made my own “Balin’s tomb”. This was super nostalgic, thanks!
Always a good day when you have a new video up.
Yes, to seeing more LotR's in the future. Great diorama!
G'day once again Squire, Brilliant as always, being a Devotee to LOTR since the early 60s!
Love the LOTR projects Boylei! Watched this while painting some Khazad Dum dwarves!
The depth and use of light are fantastic, please do more LOTR!
LOTR is the best. If you make more I’ll watch every video.. twice.
This is your most touching episode yet
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
Would love to see some more Mines of Moria stuff, I’ve always been obsessed with Moria… haha. Always try and create it in Dwarf Fortress.
Wow! I really would like to see more of this. Fantastic job!
Lord of the Rings is always a great subject for dioramas and, once again, you did an incredible job of creating a memorable scene. Your techniques are amazing and, coupled with your imagination, always make for some compelling dioramas. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to more Lord of the Rings based dioramas.
This is awesome!!! LOTR is the best saga
My wife bought me a map of Moria while we were dating! That's how I knew she was the one. Lord of the Rings is my favorite story, and A Journey in the Dark is my favorite chapter! Always love seeing LotR content from you! Thank you!