I did a massive double take when I saw this jaw-dropping model on Dinosaurs and Robots. “Wait, that’s a Leman Russ battle tank! From Warhammer 40K!,” I squealed to myself. Warhammer 40,000 is the “dark gothic sci-fi” tabletop wargame that almost put me in the poorhouse a few years back. One of the coolest things about the tabletop wargaming hobby is that there are actually so many different hobbies involved (the gaming itself, the miniature painting, the scenery building, the model converting, the writing fiction and scenarios in the gameworld).
One of my favorite aspects of the hobby is seen above at its finest: diorama modeling. Go to a Games Day or other tabletop wargaming conference and you’ll see miniatures and displays like this that will blow your mind. The quality of the painting, the level of depicted detail, the ingenuity of the “hacks” (e.g. the kitchen trash that’s been turned into realistic-looking model components) is tremendously inspiring.
These images come from an article on IPMS Stockholm, an international plastic modeling webzine. You’ll find over 500 articles on plastic modeling there.
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