Junkyard Diorama

[The Modeling Hermit]

This is an ongoing project that has taken a year to get to this point.   The unit is 4 feet wide by 16 feet long.   It includes a working waterfall that my daughter built.   The premise is that it had been an amusement park, many generations back.   There are still some foundations left, as well as a  man-made waterfalls, river, and water feature running alongside the river.   The land has been taken over by a substantial sized junkyard, itself old and overgrown.   An old arch type bridge spans the two sections, of which involves a certain amount of courage to drive across.

This section to the right of the river is unfinished, but shows some of my vision for it.

 

[The Modeling Hermit]

I have added some more details to the diorama.  The first picture is an edited picture of the second.   In it I have incorporated a calendar picture to represent the world beyond the diorama.   Mostly, it hides all the basement piping and other clutter.   This diorama is in a backroom of my basement.   The second photo shows what I was hiding.   In both, one can see the running water in the river coming from the waterfalls.   You can also see the treacherous bridge that must be crossed to go from one side to the other.

It's rather difficult to see the running water in this picture, but it is coming from both waterfalls.   My daughter made this whole section.   For the full impact. you may watch videos on my YouTube channel (the Modeling Hermit).

In the next series of pictures, I display work that has begun on the other side of the river.   I've placed, what appears to be either a set of steps or a set of bleachers on the hillside, along with a platform, probably having been a stage at some point.   Around this I've placed several junk cars, and tossed on the steps/bleachers are assorted car parts.   All of this blended into trees and weeds.  In a couple of the pictures, you'll note that I've edited in sky and background to eliminate the basement debris.   I did not alter the actual scenes in the pictures.

 

[BK9300]

Just an amazing creation - and a whole lot time carefully placing each bit of vegetation - beautiful!

[bobss396]

This looks quite real. I know of a 'yard. I'm not sure if it us still open, that is similar. 

It had streams running through it, I had to walk across two old telephone poles to get to some outer storage trailers to dig through.

Of course no power or lights. I had to bring items outside to match them up to my part. Then traverse back carrying both parts. Good times, this was around 1990.