After 5+ years, I am finally starting the Eastern African Diorama (Updated July 5 with chimp troop and desert/jungle worked)

What a pack!! your rocky arrangement look very realistic.  Is the lying lion the old Shleich custom?

Such a stunning pride of lions, I love how you have set them up so that there is so much to look at!

It is all so impressive that I don't know what to say. Just keep enjoying the progression and every single detail.

WOW    

Fantastic pride!!

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I am excited to be finally working on this project. I think I have a small table to add on that will be the watering hole. Becasue where will my crocs, hippos and water birds live? And the wildlife needs to drink.

At last what a great adventure. I remember having followed all your acquisitions year after year and this new subject will finally reveal to us the dreams that have inspired you for all this time? It's just wonderful. I await the rest with impatience and joy.

I hope we will see closer pics of every part of your dio !

This is just amazing. Bravo!

Here are updated photos on the progress of the Diorama. I have just about finished the plains/savannah area and starting the other side of the river. Getting into the wooded/forest section. Sorry for blurry photos. Once south of the river is complete, I will take closer photos. I feel the plains look a little crowded but it cannot be as realistic as the real thing I guess. Maybe I will move some of the animals to north of the river. I plan on another smaller table as the water hole area. I will be working on the desert part as well. I think there needs to be small back drops so I can take closer on the ground photos vs "aerial" shots.  Lots of work and time but a great project to work on!

Animals include zebra, wildebeest, lion, warthogs, tommy gazelle, Hirola, Hunter's Hartebeest, Secretary Bird, genet, caracal, serval, pied crow, ground squirrel, green lizard, Aardvark, Aardwolf, African Clawless Otter, African Grey Parrott, African Open Bill Stork, African Porcupine, African Sacred Ibis, African Savanna Hare, Banded Mongoose, Black Backed Jackal, African Wild Cat, Black-and-white Colobus, Cheetah, Civet, Coke's Hartebeest, Common Stork, Kori Bustard, Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill, Genet, Giraffe, Grant's Gazelle, green lizard, Helmeted Guinea fowls, Honey Badger, Klipspringer, Marabou Stork, Martial Eagle, Nyala, Oribi, Peregrine Falcon, Roan Antelope, Rock Hyrax, Saddle-billed Stork, shoebill, Spotted Hyena, Swayne's dik-dik, Spoonbills, White rhino, White-faced Whistling Duck, and Yellow-billed Stork.

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Wow  Your display looks wonderful So realistic  and amazing with all its different details

What an absolutely beautiful diorama, every time you post new photos I am more and more amazed!
This really is the best way to display a stunning collection like yours, it is as good as being in Africa! So many wonderful models, plants- and everywhere you look there is something new to see!

Not crouded at all. Obviously you cannot show the animals as dispersed as they are in real but it has a very good balance and you can show them with a very pleasant effect. What you are presenting to us is something really grand!

This is really great to see, thanks for sharing your project here. Its fun to see each herd and pack and flock together, and to spot the small customs like the antelope calf getting a drink from its mother. Really great work and photos and all!

Looks great! Lots of interesting details. I like the termite hill. Did you make it?

I have completed where the giraffes are browsing and part of the upper river. I also painted the Safari LTD light gray wildebeest a brownish color. I did not think they looked very realistic as a light gray. I also included them in the herd of zebra coming to the river. I also show the hyena den. Plus the beginning the forest area with the animals in location (Bongo, Okapi, red river hog). Just need to put in the flora around them and add in more animals such as chimps and gorillas.

More to come on the waterhole and the desert/dry scrub parts. Need to get a better phone to take pics. They are not great. Sorry! I plan on getting induvial photos of each species when done.


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I really don't have words to describe how cool your project is! I love each photo you share. Great work and nice job on every detail. Are your little hyena cubs in the den? I would love a picture if you have any time.

This is an esplendid job, many details, very good proportion.

landrover wrote:

This is an esplendid job, many details, very good proportion.

Absolutly agree

This is so cool! And there is so much to see, I have to look at the pictures multiple times to see everything

Thanks All--I plan on getting closer with pictures of each species. Some are hard to see or hidden.

Absolutely beautiful!