Miniature Abandoned Hallway | Mirror Reflection Effect 

“Any moment which is not captured is lost in the events of time.” Your incredibly constructed miniature dioramas will be a conduit for sharing the past with the future.!

great scene Nic, I always make a mental note after watching your stuff to use an eraser to rub the masking fluid off... I always forget when I get to it

Fantastic work Nic! Watching the latex peel is so so so satisfying

Excellent, Nic! I realllllly like when someone comes along with a technique I never may have even considered. Diggin it, my man!

The level of thought, detail, mood setting and work you put into these miniatures and films keeps impressing and inspiring me. Great work, as always!

I see a new Abandoned Miniatures video, and I click on it and like it!

This turned out awesome, Nic! Well done.

I like the Story behind the build. Great build n video 🥰

Wonderful stuff! If that were a modern horror movie, the camera would crawl along the corridor, and just as it got to the end room with the chair, the door to that room would be slammed shut by invisible hands. It's a beautiful model. I used to go urbexing, and I know exactly what you are talking about.

I have depression and anxiety disorder and your videos soothes me out. Thanks for your work and your videos. Greetings from Mexico. 🇲🇽

I have to say that your talent in photography is on par with you skills in creating the miniatures. One wouldn't have the same effect without the other. It's amazing how you can create a specific mood with light.

Ooohh My Gooodness!! It spooked the hell out of me!! Awesome project! I love your channel!

Love your work

Great work love it 👍

Absolutely love all your videos - great work 🙂

Amazing! I love your asylum serie, it has special vibes of past stucking in forgotten place. It's absolutely incredible that we can see this place as you've seen it once, even if for now it looks completely different and maybe destroyed…

I love this, it's really inspiring

this is my first time here and least to say , i am more than impressed ! it looks so realistic i thought i was being tricked !

very cool, thanks for sharing.

Very cool but wondering if you had added water texture on the mirrors it would have given more depth and realism. Dig it for sure though.

Brilliant! 👍

Most excellent as usual. I agree with another comment about the mirror being too perfect but I'm not sure what would work well to correct that one minor thing. Still came out great and some of the shots really captured the feel of the photo. Fine work as always. Cheers!

Awesome

You're amazingly talented! I love your miniatures and the stories behind them. You're the best! 😎🤩❤

You always do fantastic work. I've seen all of your videos.. This is the first criticism I've had for you. The mirrors are cool, but only resin is going to give you the water affect you want. Probably a base thin layer of resin, then lay in debris, and a top layer. You are so talented though. I hope you know I mean it with love. 💜

I think the standing water would look a lot better if had some particles of debris or perhaps like falling ceiling panels and dust. The standing water looks too placent.

Do you have a RU-vid channel where we can see your explorations of abandoned buildings?

Dommage que tu ne montres pas tout, hello from France and good job

Uau!!! Show!!!🇧🇷🎞🎥

COOOL :D

this looks fantastic... but i dont get it... why do you even need this miniatures as a production?))) i mean how you make money with this? or this is just a hobby?

I remember you talking about this picture a while back. Turned out great Nic!

I loved listening to you talk about the story behind your work! As someone who loves to explore old abandoned places where I live, I completely relate with how you described the beauty of urban decay!

I completely agree with your notion of 'beauty in decay' :) one thing that is missing with the implementation of the mirror is that the mirror's reflection of the area is TOO perfect. Even with still water the reflection loses a degree of detail and color due to some light passing through the surface. I know it would be tougher to pull off and likely more pricey but building a plexy or thick masking tape "dam" around the area and pouring a few mililiters of clear resin across the entirety of the hall would work wonders for that film like realism. As well it will better show the mud/particles strewn around slightly submerged rather than all looking like they are resting on a solid surface. Heck you could even make/use tiny leaves strewn in and floating/sinking in the "water". Also, for a bit of fun, using that new light, doing silouette cut outs of "something" off cam in the doorways would be right fun and intrigueing. especially if it shows just for a few split seconds.. hehe.

Man your awesome i’ll say it again love this channel and your cinematography just brilliant

Disculpe, podrías poner subtítulos en español porfavor?

unbelivable.. this is unbelivable! what a work man..

Stories are the way to go and you did a nice job with it in this video! I've been working on a similar thing, but occasionally will break away from the story to call out a few items or techniques, or I'll sometimes just point out the crafting materials with text so that the dialog doesn't break stride. The mirrors really look great and totally sell the water effect. Excellent leap of imagination on that. I too have been playing around with moving lights in my final glamour shots, but nothing as bold as what you did here. The light and shadow effect through the doors is beautiful. I need to get my hands on some of those little lights! Tres cool! Excellent work, Nic!

I like the walls, it reminds me of an abandoned psychiatric hospital in horror movies.

Beautiful message and hallway!

Hella cool!!!!!!

Crack 🏆fantastic

this one has a very mysterious feeling to it, nice job man !

I like a story while you work

Nice one 👍

Gostei tá muito bom 😀

Great as always ! :) I just thought that for me, you would have nailed the wet effect on the floor even more, if you would have added wet effects to the edges of the dirt piles, because for me, they look a bit too dry :).

I explored a very similar place in St. Louis, City Hospital, when it was still up and felt the same way. The mirrors are nice for reflectivity but want a bit of floor to show through. I wonder if a scrim suspended out of shot from the roof would dull the reflection and create that effect. Alternatively it might not be as noticeable if the debris on the floor had color variation and staining from rising and falling water, especially where it touches the mirror. Still very amazing with the simple approach.

Howdy, wow this build was fantastic. The stories are interesting -thanks. That Lumecube intriqued me - thanks for that too. Thanks so much for sharing.

My mother’s favorite cousin Violet died in a tuberculosis ward, isolated away from her family. You’ve captured the deep loneliness well.

Almost looks like something in a beached shipwreck. Excellent work! 👍

The problem with the mirror is the gap in the reflection caused by the thickness of the glass. But it did out great anyways! This set has so many possibilities of lighting combinations. The red room with the chair looked kind of evil!

Wow this looks so realistic.I wondered how you was going to get the water effect.I thought you was going to use resin.But what a very clever trick using glass to give the same effect.Love the details and accuracy.Love n Light 🥰

oh also you mention making a documentary on the facility you photographed. is that online? Would love to check it out!

Like always, great job and storytelling, but I have to be honest, I didn't like using the mirrors to reflect the water. We could see dust resting on the glass, which took away the illusion of water. Could you photograph it twice more, one time with water and another time using a water effect product, to compare which way looks better for future projects?

At first I thought this was going to be the famous chair scene from Session 9. Have you been to places that weren't fully abandoned? I heard stories of urban explorers who found evidence that homeless people were living in those places but didn't actually encounter them. Have you ever spent a night in one of those places? I once read a story about a group who spent the night at some creepy hospital while exploring. I don't think I'd have the guts to do it...

So cool! Love your work)

Great work and your attention to detail is amazing. All of your dioramas (is that the correct word for multiple diorama??) are so realistic. Thank you for sharing your passion, mate.

❤❤ recognize that space

Six days ago, a water main under repair broke in my underground condo parking garage . Dumped 380,000 gallons of water that took two fire engines hours to pump back out. My car was against the down grade far wall, which acted as a backstop to steer the torrent over and into my 2019 Honda with 6800 miles on it. I couldn`t come downstairs from the 12th floor for a look see for two days because the elevators instantly went out when the lobby filled with 18 inches of water.. Could you possibly build a diorama of THAT for my insurance company?!? Thanks in advance...

Jaja no mames soy el único que habla español

What if you added resin over the mirror to make a more defined water-effect on the floor ???

can you leave the sub titles, so i can read and understandig better what you say? thank you

Another great miniature and I loved the storytelling! My hometown had a bad flood in 2016 and your story made me rethink how to write about one of the buildings we lost.

The use of mirror is BRILLIANT!! 😍😍

great job !

So good !

The mirror for water really worked out! Looks great. And I like you thinking about the stories of these places.