I would love to see some more variety in coat colours for the horses in future builds! They’re almost always bay and I feel it would be fun to have a pop of something else eventually
I agree. I love the builds a lot but wish he would use more brighter colours for the animals and people figures, sometimes. I feel that he uses too much of the Autumn colours like browns, yellows and ochres, etc.
Me too! And it can be done - I recently painted some of the horses from the IMEX Sioux Indians set, a Buckskin and an Appaloosa. They came out great and added a really cool touch to the scene. There are some good horse coat color charts online.
@gfries4906 they also don't *leave* the water, nor do they live in acidic and near boiling temperatures. Yes, whales and dolphins breathe air at the surface, but they're ocean borne and restricted creatures. This thing is actively choosing harsh environments to live in when it *could* choose to live elsewhere.
I mean it could be a walrus type creature that can spend extensive periods out of water but is still built to survive in water, who knows if this thing has legs maybe it just flops from pool to pool lol
@@4ae109 Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), and pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses) do _not_ have FRIGGIN' HANDS!
I recently found your channel after stumbling across North of the Border, and I've been glued to it ever since. As a hobby painter of middling skill, your tricks and techniques have been incredibly helpful. Thanks for what you do! The Wild Imaginary West is awesome, and tremendously encouraging as I work on a setting of my own!
When you said no animal can survive in the hot springs, I immediately thought of flamingos. Can’t find anything on them interacting with Yellowstone specifically, but they can drink boiling water and chill in water so acidic and salty it would melt your skin. Terrifying!
I’ve read about 12 books now about early American mountain men and their adventures, hunting and trapping through the Rocky Mountains. All of there tails about first stumbling along Yellowstone and the natural wonders there are amazing. They couldn’t believe what they were seeing. And no one back east believed them, when they described the geysers.
As someone who has been watching your videos for a long time now, it is really astonishing to watch your progress during the years. This diorama is stunning and I’m so proud of you for finding your groove with the resin. Great job!
3:13 I found it quite funny that you mentioned we were thinking “no animal can survive in the hot spring pool” like you did because at that moment I was in fact thinking “man that monster has to be so tough and wicked to live in a place like that” pretty much just before you made a comment about it lol
I'm a huge fan of Yellowstone and love visiting these boiling hot and extremely acidic waters of the park's hot springs when we're able to make the trip. I often remember that first video you did and was happy to see you revisit another one. Love the videos and your work!
Well done, Boylei! Even if you omitted the monster, this hot springs diorama would be a winner! That said, the monster is the only sign that this diorama is part of your Wild Imaginary West, and not a depiction of an actual, historical scene. (Maybe if your miners had a Forestall on one of their mules . . . ?) Regardless, this deep-pour resin scene is incredible, and I'm looking forward to more of your Sunday Morning videos! Thanks for sharing your imagination and techniques with us! 158th Like.
I love the creativity and how amazing your builds are. It would be great to see a behind the scenes video and do a bench walkthrough and show how you record your videos!!
I love that this channel has blown up in such a small amount of time (comparatively) and is getting so much love. Even more, I appreciate the time you put into it all, doing something I definitely can not do but tune in immediately to see.
I am in awe with your craftsmanship and the precision and attention you pay to detail. Also, can we appreciate for a moment how clean and tidy your work area is? I love a tidy workspace during the process. 🤩
Yo, Boylei! Apparently local folklore holds that dragons live in Yellowstone. Maybe you could make a Yellowstone dragon diorama, or even have the mystery creature be one of these dragons if you wish
what better place for a dragon to incubate it's eggs than in a hot pool? The dragon should not look like a european or chinese dragon, but more of a cross between a grizzly bear, porcupine and eagle.
Been a watcher for a while, and wanted to thank you for your hard work and creativity. I love the Imaginary Wild West set, but I'd like to ask if you've considered doing any more Biblical dioramas? I know you've done at least one in the past for the channel but I always loved artistic expressions of faith and personally I'd love to see more of it. Your diorama videos are always a delight either way and help brighten my day, and thank you again.
another hot spring cutaway yessss! yes! your first hotspring video was the first one i ever saw of yours. i was really pulled in by the soft voiceover and the respect you have for nature. i havent been to yellowstone in a few years but i think you capture its colors and its gestures so well.
I’m not sure if you’ve been to/heard of the Superstition Mountains in AZ. Legend has it that there’s buried “lost Dutchman’s” gold somewhere in the mountains. There’s also a natural phenomenon where the sun casts a shadow on the rocks that looks like a giant cougar. A diorama with treasure hunters coming face to face with what is in fact an actual giant cougar seems like a perfect addition to the W.I.W!!
I also took a road trip that had us visiting Yellowstone last year, and you've really done an amazing job. I haven't seen either of the ones you've created so far in person, but based on the hot springs I saw I can say they are incredibly well done and really look like a proper hot spring!
Amazing work Caleb. The hint about tinitng the hardner then mixing with the main resin later is excellent. LED's that only switch on when motion is detected in front of the diorama would have been epic. :)
Gorgeous! And I love the subtlety of the hand in the darkness 😊 I might have commented this on the last Yellowstone video, but these deep pools really remind me of my local folklore (Sussex, England). We have a water dragon called the Knucker which lived in knuckerholes. These are smallish, very deep ponds that are supposedly bottomless.
The Wild Imaginary West is my favorite! I would love to see monsters as companions or work animals. As we know humans will pack bond with anything and there will always be 'that guy (or gal)' who's willing to try. I'm already excited for you next video.
I think it might have been me that suggested adding the pigment to half of the resin in a large batch to keep the colors consistent. I know I've suggested to people in the past. If it wasn't me, I'll still take credit. ;) That, by the way, is an amazing resin pour! Very hard to do something that large with no bubbles, boiling (yes, folks, this stuff boils when poured too thick), or noticeable pour lines.
i think that if you pour a new layer of resin on top of an old one, while the old one is not completely solid, but has a very viscous, almost hard consistency, you can avoid layer lines. the old layer should be solid enough that you leave a visible hollow when you press it in, but the rest remains stable, similar to clay.
The layer between pours visible beneath the surface in the spring reminds me of those haloclines you can sometimes see in flooded caverns near the sea. I imagine there'd be too much mixing in a hot spring for something like that to form but it's still at least semi-realistic. :)
Monsters are always scariest when they remain unknown. The best horror movies keep the monster off camera because we can imagine worse things than anything we see.
For deep pours like that, it would be really cool to see you experiment with putting the diorama in a freezer to prevent resin overheating, like BM Sculptutes do :)
Sheesh. Imagine hanging at that pool and whatever that creature is sort of jumps out and grabs your buddy or worse yet, you! The heat and shock would be terrible and if you are still conscious the dragging down through boiling salty water as your flesh boils… ugh…. Just a terrible mess. And this is really gorgeous too! Very pretty piece. 😅🎉🎉❤❤
Something that might be fun to do, in your next diorama with a more forest/nature theme it'd be cool to see some "forest critters" with your Wild Imaginary West twist. Animals that aren't too dangerous and probably would be more common the further East.
Hello friend, this is the first time I have written to congratulate you on your Diorama Projects. I rarely write to the creators of the channel because many times there are few who read the comments and respond, but I always leave you a Like. Thanks to you, I was inspired to start making dioramas because I saw one you did about three years ago, from STARWARS titled: ''Tank Ambush Aftermath Diorama''. And after seeing that work I started to create my own. Well, what I wanted to ask you is a favor, I have reviewed all your videos and I see that you have not made one of Halo when you can and if you want, make one of Master Chief vs The Covenant, I know that you will be excellent. You can be inspired by any combat of the new HALO series. Well thank you very much for everything and keep on giving us the best as always.
Wonderful as always. Cowboy themed horror is such a cool genre It would be cool to see an Oregon trail themed diorama, maybe with a zombie twist due to the infamous tale of the cannibalism that took place in snowy mountains.
