About

Dioramas by Nicolas Cabaret are a sort of artistic side project whose aim is to show various Death related scenes as I feel like Death is not often pictured in miniatures. And then I feel like it.

Like said French author Louis-Ferdinand Céline, "death is the great inspirer, if you don't put your life on the table you end up getting nothing".

For those who wonder, I am nearly 40,  married, 2 sons and an okay job, but I feel like those people who need to put a skull on their desktop so that they are reminded where it all ends, and how it is not necessary to rush etc.

Here is my list of 10 points for better dioramas, slightly modified from the one by my colleague  Jean-Bernard André

1 -The point of a diorama is to tell stories.

2 -When doing your diorama you should not be influenced by any trend or by any fellow modeler for you will only reproduce pale copies of originals.

3 -You should instead be influenced by EVERYTHING; a trip in nature, archive footages, paintings, music you should never consider this list to be closed.

4 -You can treat every theme in dioramas, even the cruelest, but if you do, you'd better be good or subtle enough or you won't get away with it.

4 -If you don't have a good idea to start with, or know you won't have any, wait for one to come.

5 - No ambience:  nothing. If nothing shines from your diorama, you miss your point and just picture an assortment of junk and people.
6 -You should remember that a diorama is a 3D thing whose advantage is that you can turn it around and get different perspectives of the same scene. You will therefore make an effort to not close the view of any part of it.

7 -You should remember that the nature surrounding a panzer is equally as important as the panzer.

8 - There's nearly nothing you can buy in shops that is to be used straight from the box

9 -Whenever dealing with war you should treat it with conscience: you should remember it's a sad thing that destroys a man, even if he survives it. Avoid above all any temptation for historical revisionism -even slight.

10 -You should try to do something you can be proud of and remember that a diorama may be seen as some piece of art if your input in it is strong enough.