Scratch Built Miniature VAMPIRE Diorama 

“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula

Pure joy- I love it. Great call with the green :-)

That green makes me wish you made an ultimate Castle Grayskull.

the green looks really good, almost like an old Frazetta illustration.

Continue making some regular "self care" builds. Looking forward to the next one! ^^ [ I think it makes a huge difference when youtubers indulge a little in their crafts. ]

That was fantastic! The green looks so cool. You have given me an itch to build a diorama!

That tiniest bit of q-tip cotton made all the difference.. well done

Please do a Frankenstein lab diorama! I really want to make one in honor of my dad

The green was a great choice! Good on ya for self care. You and your family Stay healthy.

What I love most about your vids is that you highlight what didn't work and what mistakes you made, and those highlights don't send a message of "Don't make the same mistakes I did", but "Even a flawed piece can still look great."

Green stone definitely looked cool in contrast to the blood. Also that spider web was awesome.

2:04 "Some people will argue it's not a amazing paintjob, and it's not, but it's good enough for me and that's what counts." Seriously, this needs to be repeated over and over again.

What a great display. Love the bits of dripped blood on the stone leading out of the dark corners.

this diorama looks so cool! the choice of green for the stone was definitely a risky move, but on that payed off well in the end as that gave the whole thing a really neat atmosphere. going to have to remember to try changing up stone colors in my own builds in the future!

I think this is my favorite thing you've made recently. Green was a great choice.

Oh when Scott sees this!

Green ink for the stones was the way to go!!! Excellent choice!!

Baller, I really like the use of the cotton from the Q-tip to make a spider web effect as well as all the little details you put into this. Keep up the amazing work Jeremy.

I really dig the green tint to the walls. Makes me really think about some new projects.

Just came over from watching Nosferatu. Oh the irony 😸 My night is full of vampires 😍 totally not complaining 😉

Doing little projects for yourself is always a good idea. It helps respark joy. I get caught up in painting minis and terrain for games and sometimes forget the whole reason I got into painting was for fun and relaxation. The other day I decided to stop painting for games for a while and I wanted to make a cyber punk mini diorama as I only ever paint pirates or fantasy. I searched RU-vid for cyberpunk inspiration and realised I missed a video of yours and it so happened to be cyberpunk! Love it.

An excellent and atmospheric piece. The green stone really was a great choice.

The narrow and claustrophobic nature of the diorama fits perfectly with the Nosferatu style vampire. That movie was so claustrophobic in some shots. Very cool. Makes me want to do something similar.

"It's good enough for me, and that's all that counts" Best thing I've heard you say! More people need to understand that. Whatever you do as a hobby the important thing is to be happy and have fun. Trying to impress others will cause you to not enjoy yourself as much. Unless you are doing something for someone else then nobody's opinion matters. Yes, it's great to hear someone say good job but what matters most is if you are happy. No matter how easy anyone can make something look, not everyone can do it. Most "rivet counters" I've ever encountered don't do much. They seem to enjoy telling others what they done wrong than actually doing something themselves. That's one of the things I like about your channel here. You have no problems pointing out your screwups and what you do to either correct it or make it work somehow. Sidenote... Sorry for the long post. With the "quarantine" going on there's not much to do.

This is awesome! The only thing that sparkles with this vampire is your talent.

I think this may be my favorite build of all i've watched you do. Love the green stone!

Paint looks pretty darn good to my eye. Always amazing work.

I think you struck the right balance between a fun project that is also effective. I had fun watching you have fun. Subject matter is not that important ... I just enjoy seeing how other artists do their work, start to finish. You can never tell when a project YOU'RE working on can furnish a usable technique for someone else on something entirely different. I think your addition of ye green was a great idea, giving the stonework a creepy, nastily "moist", dank, & mossy/mouldy look ... It's much more striking than pristine stonework would have been. It's details and thinking like that which I admire. Nice job!

Man that is absolutely sick. I love that you just did something for you. It's not "useful", per se, but its function is to make you happy, so it's one of the more important projects you've done. Thank you!

Great vid Jeremy and great message. Good on you making something just for you that you wanted to do for yourself. Awesome stuff.🙂

I know you wanted to use the cylinder, but I’ve recently seen a great method for making spiral stairs, by Crooked Staff terrain IIRC. Basically you make a stack of single steps plus round part for the column, and stack them on each other. Super quick and very effective!

OHHH, I like that. That gives me an idea what to do with my miniature of Strahd von Zarovich.

Love revisiting your older content. It’s neat to see how you’ve grown in different areas and adapted different methods as you try things over time. Your curiosity and willingness to experiment have always been a great motivation as I tend to freeze up with analysis paralysis trying to determine the ‘right’ way forward on a project. It’s always great to remember there are multiple ways of going about things. :) Your dioramas are often my favourite projects, and having a smaller scope/size on this one really is a great way to enjoy a shorter project that can wonderfully frame/highlight even a single figure - giving them story and context. I will try to do something like this over the holidays to shift myself from thinking about the hobby to the actual doing of it. 😅 Happy holidays folks! 💜

Hey Jeremy! I love your videos and how you craft your terrain. Your terrain has an insane amount of detail and I like that! I’m 11 years old, and I’ve started taking up D&D myself! Yourself and a few other crafters have inspired me to make D&D videos on my channel. I loved the video by the way! Have a safe week!

Can't go wrong with green ink. So much more interesting than just regular gray stone.

Hey dude! Honestly just seeing your videos every once in a while makes Quarantine, INSANELY much more bearable. Keep up the good work!

Love the quote at the beginning.

Holy crap that's awesome. Love the contrasting colours

Love this video. I have watched it 5 times. You are one of the few people who can do stairs to the proper scale. I was thinking on doing a similer type of diorama with the Reaper vampire and victim.

I love the way it's more about art than just gaming.

The production on your videos is amazing. I've been watching the evolution for a while. Great work man, congratulations on creating something amazing and thanks for making cool videos for us to watch.

Complimenti, un piccolo diaroma molto bello! Congrats, a really beautifull little diorama.

A taller one of these would look fantastic as a bookshelf insert between some vampire themed books!

So much Nosferatu vibes! I always loved Dracula, this is so cool!

This was awesome. Thanks again Jeremy! Your videos help our survival & sanity more than u know.

The end result is great mate the green walls make the whole thing pop.

At first I thought the green paint was too much, but it turned out GREAT! Definitely going to try this myself!

Wasn't sure about the green, but the overall effect pulls it all together, nice job !

This was probably one of my favorite builds of late. I havent done much tabletop crafting lately, but now i want to start again. We just cant play dnd due to lock down

Hey there Mr. Jeremy. I wanted to say that I've been watching your channel pretty much since the beginning, and this build is perhaps the most atmospheric and cool one I've seen you do yet. I love it! Agree that the green toned stone was a great idea. Thanks, and cheers!

I would love to see a series of these narrow, almost snap shot dioramas. It would be awesome to see your take on all of the old universal monsters. Wolf-man, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein...it would be a cool series

That looks fantastic!

Dracula is my favorite book I'm glad you're branching out

looking awesome , loving the green brickwork

Love the green ink! Great color choice!

Excellent diorama and figure. Graf Orlok was, and always will be, an achingly cool character. Nice one. I have a space shuttle, and a Titanic to build for my six year old nephew. That's my spare time, and I'm looking forwards to it. Don't often get time to build stuff, but nowadays... Thanks for your videos. Stay safe, man. Stay safe.

finding the time isn't the problem, it's finding materials. we're all hanging in there. great project!

Awesome contrast with the green stonework! Hope your wife is doing ok with her job! My hub decided to take a couple weeks of leave to try to get some temporary distance. Thanks for continuing to entertain us out in the quarantined world!

Bravo, Maestro!

Absolutely stunning work!

That spiral staircase was the perfect occasion to use a mirror placed between the column and the wall, to give the illusion of symmetry to the landing and blood pool.

Loved this video - fun, and deceptively simple with the curved walls. Adore the green wash and spider webb. Fab to watch, thank you :-)

I love how the green ink worked over the grey stone and the spider web. Finally decided to check Shifting Lands after the video and noticed they have a Jig for stairs like this, but as I have a Laser engraver / cutter, I will be sticking closer to your method if I give this a go.

ok the vampire is pretty. just hit a vampire kickstarter yesterday. The historic Nosferatu look is amazing

So much fun!

I’m going to be doing this exact scene + a little section of Nosferatu’s/ Count Orlok’s basement for a 1/6 scale figure I preordered so it’s really cool to see it done scaled down to miniature size. Also plan to start making diorama bases for all of the 1/6 scale figures I’m collecting and this channel has been so hopeful for so much even though we’re working on different scales. Love everything you do.

Great job Jeremy. I really love the green tint.

Man, the green castle turned out great!

The more you do diorama, the more I like this channel!

You do amazing work and show mistakes something many others dont do. This lets us know that someone who has done this for years and builds full scale miniature houses as a profession can still make regular mistakes and learn from them. I would love a video just as a tour of all the things you have made behind you. If you have videos of what you made you can link them maybe some of us will watch dozens of your videos and make a village inspired by you while we are trapped.

Beauty. Just Beauty.

This is a fantastic build and it looks brilliant!

Awesome! I'd love to see more of these mini dioramas.

That greenish stonework reminds me of Castle Greyskull :)

These diorama builds are some of your best work - as someone without a gaming group (it's about painting the models for me - so if you need some painted happy to help), dioramas are a great way to app,y all the the techniques you demonstrate so well. (trying to figure out a good way to use the sci-fi door template you put up in a diorama as opposed to it just being "background")

This is in my opinion the best work i've seen in a long time, simple, beautiful and terryfing for everyone meet this pale Sir staring at them like: ahh finally dinner as come!

From the other crafting brother... I love the way you problem solve while trying new techniques! This is something I like to do as well, great video, thanks👍

Now a whole castle around that diorama!

What an excellent, fun build.👍 Some really clever techniques in there but you make it look very achievable, almost simple. Using the various parts of the same cylinder was a great idea and looks very effective in the end result.👌 Cheers for now, Dougie.

Ooooh! This is nice! I'm gonna try to make a 1/12 scale version of it!

Absolutely awesome

Holy crap! I need that book!

My favorite build of yours in a while! Awesome!

The green looks awesome, it reminds me of castle grayskull

That is the coolest damn diorama, ever! Also that's a nicely painted mini, nuts to anyone who says otherwise. The build is obviously the star of thr show here 😁 Well done on that green ink wash over the stone. Abandoned castles in Europe can actually look like that, especially in Ireland where I (and Bram Stoker!) come from. Contrasts deliciously with the red clothing of your vampire!

Great video. For a twist campaign make that vamp the good guy that hires the party to put down rouge vamps.

This was a great little build! I’m glad you are taking a moment for some self-care in this stressful time. Love your videos and the thought and effort you always put into them.

That's a really cool mini and a pretty nice paint job imo.

Cool project - would make a hell'a good bookend.

Super cool!

Fantastic work!

Best bookend ever!

That was a pretty creative build. bravo!

I was just watching Puffin Forrest's latest Curse of Strahd video when you upload this

It's a small details that really COUNT...

Makes a very cool book end

A fabulous idea, well executed, It would be interesting with either an LED backed window or as someone else mentioned a UV plastic in the window and some hidden UV LEDs in the column to 'light' the window up and pop the blood a bit :-) Great work!

I have also found that Vallejos Air Colour range is very easily removable when you paint over it unless you really give it time to dry completely (it takes longer than you think!). I don't know how long it was between painting and washing for you, but I've found that letting it dry for at least an hour or so is usually enough (which is why all Vallejo artists are big fans of their hairdryers I suppose!). Really love the diorama though! I've had it in my mind to make something similar for a very long time! Thanks for the inspiration! :)

this is pretty cool

I would love to see more dioramas! 😊