… is actually not a new project. Rather, I have put together unused photos that I had from all my old projects of the last 20 years and made a little movie.
Around the turn of the millennium, I had started collecting figures, buildings, vehicles and all that stuff. I took me several years before I really had time to start diorama projects around 2004, and it was in 2008 that I finally had completed my first two scenes. Since then, I have completed 19 scenes (plus three Sci-Fi scenarios, which I have omitted here, because that’s another story).
It would have been tempting to put the latest = best projects at the end of the movie, to get a sort of climax with respect to the quality of the dioramas. But I decided to sort the scenes rather according to their intrinsic chronology, so we start in pre-Roman times and end with Late Antiquity.
Now what can you expect when you are willing to sacrifice half an hour of your time and watch the movie? It’s a pretty typical sword and sandal movie, I’d say: You will see decadent emperors (well, one emperor to be precise), lots of soldiers in shiny armor and lots of barbarians in exotic costumes, of course some epic fighting, hard working slaves, but also impressive monuments, golden statues, scenes of utter opulence and even … yes, some nudity.
Direct embedding of Youtube videos seems to work no longer, but you can click on the GIF: