Spider-Man 1/6 damaged restaurant battle area diorama.

[NakedMoleRat]

First, a BIG thank you to Katsu-San for giving me encouragement along the way. Many messages back and forth with him along this build.

I didn’t take pictures of everything in this build, but hopefully it will have been enough.

This is for my Hot Toys Spider-Men figures. So far I have my Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield figures. The Toby Maguire has not come in yet.

I‘m using pink foam as the ground base and wood for the building walls.

I got a bunch of miniature bricks from TEMU and started to build the walls with them.

I used spackle as mortar for them. It also helped to age them a bit. Apply it and wipe off the extra with a wet towel.

I then began work on a neon sign. Using LED filaments. Pre-drilled holes and wires to hold them in place.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Moving on to the base. Using a 1/6 scale, an average sidewalk is 6 feet wide, so this would be 1 foot wide. No street for this diorama. All the action takes place on the sidewalk.

I wanted a neon sign for the building. NY Pizza. Got the letters and flexible LEDs from AliExpress.

Test fit for the guys.

 

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Took a sheet of plastic and cut and scored it to ‘break’ it. Broken door.

Time to start detailing the street. I decided that the building was too far over, so I cut it out and moved it. I used more spackle to fill in the cut and put some texture on the sidewalk. I also cut a chunk out of the sidewalk and added a nice crack in the sidewalk.

 

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Painted it with a series of washes to get the NY sidewalk look.

Next up, add some weeds and dirt into the crack with terrain foliage and dirt. I also added some broken glass from the entry door and some left over bricks from the damaged sign.

A bit more detail.

 

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I got a NY fire hydrant from a seller in Korea. I like the style quite a lot, so I waited the 4 weeks for it to get here.

Here we are with some more of the neon sign. I put some wire on the right side to look like it was damaged and burnt out.

I added the left side of the building with bass wood. And left one wall natural and the other with a black wash. I made the building light with plastic tube and a glass dome that I got years ago from a glass blowing demonstration at the Renaissance Fair. I knew that I’d use it for something eventually.

 

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Adding more details to it. The left side of the building. I gave it a grey wash and then dry brushed on the damaged section onto it and the bricks on the other side of it.

And I added a spider web to the light with thin hot glue threads.

 

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Next, using an AI program, I made up some posters for the restaurant and found a spider-man newspaper online.

 

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I printed them. I backed the posters on wood and placed them on the building. I damaged the one to match the damage to the building.

 

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It’s all about the details. The garbage can was a bit too small for the scale, so I made a base for it. I then made a bag of trash for it.

I then made a pizza box template as well as a Chinese takeout box for some street litter.

Easter egg, The Avengers are having shawarma in the background.

 

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I’m also using the first Amazing Spider-Man from Hot Toys as at least one of them needs to have his mask on.

I sent an ‘almost complete’ picture to Katsu-San, and he asked why I didn’t have one of the Spider-Men hanging upside down?

I would not have thought of that.

I added some rust at the base of the fire hydrant.

So, I got out some more flower wire and coated it with hot glue to make a web. I then hung him on it and wrapped the wire to a screw under the shelf frame.

A close up of some trash.

And here we are waiting for Toby. He’ll be front and center when he arrives.

 

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And, before someone asks, I’m not a fan of the MCU Iron Spider suit, that’s why…

 

[JediMichael]

That looks pretty awesome.
And that katsu guy, really need to watch for him.
His overly completely cretivaitlyness (new word for him) might rub off on you.

 

[joberg]

Good dio...I don't know if it's finished yet, but some details are missing in terms of wear and tear/real life details:
Fire hydrant looks good but for one thing: dogs are using it and it should show on it and the concrete sidewalk around it.
Graffiti are missing from the facade and other standing structures.
Pizza boxes are too clean (specially inside), as well as the news papers.
Trash can is too clean, as well as the concrete under it. People have a tendency to put the trash on the same spot and some food scrap/stains should be near that spot.
All in all a good effort

 

[yuumi2891103]

That looks pretty awesome.
And that katsu guy, really need to watch for him.
His overly completely cretivaitlyness (new word for him) might rub off on you.

Are you praising me or what?
And it was a matter of time, that Thaddeus-san came to that idea.

 

[yuumi2891103]

Good dio...I don't know if it's finished yet, but some details are missing in terms of wear and tear/real life details:
Fire hydrant looks good but for one thing: dogs are using it and it should show on it and the concrete sidewalk around it.
Graffiti are missing from the facade and other standing structures.
Pizza boxes are too clean (specially inside), as well as the news papers.
Trash can is too clean, as well as the concrete under it. People have a tendency to put the trash on the same spot and some food scrap/stains should be near that spot.
All in all a good effort

Thaddeus-san, joberg-san is suggesting that there are so many more factors that you can pour your technique into and enjoy this build.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Thaddeus-san, joberg-san is suggesting that there are so many more factors that you can pour your technique into and enjoy this build.

Yes, I haven’t been to NY since 2015, I forgot some details. I may need a couple of rats too…

 

[yuumi2891103]

Yes, I haven’t been to NY since 2015, I forgot some details. I may need a couple of rats too…

A diorama is a fountain of ideas.

 

[JediMichael]

Are you praising me or what?
And it was a matter of time, that Thaddeus-san came to that idea.

Praise???
Oh no...definitely not....

 

[NakedMoleRat]

in an ironic twist, no dog has ever peed on that particular fire hydrant. There was a homeless guy once though…

 

[kermet]

Very nice work after the extra detail work you add please share so far this so so cool looking this far