It’s been almost two years since Creeping nightmare at Blue-City Park. Life happened, Pnic and I moved, and the Extra Robots project was put to side. Until now?

The Blue-City park Diorama hasn’t left my display shelf and is still looking very good to my standards. Since almost the beginning of this journey, I had multiple diorama ideas, some like Blue-City Park being quite big and some being little one-off scenes, easier and faster to make. “Domestic Ruins” is one of those.

The plan was simple: let’s make a post-battle scene where one of our Extra Robots Jaeger lost the battle to a monster. Robot must be defeated, damaged and so must be the environment. I took inspiration from many epic Gundam Dioramas.

The build

Everything started with two things I had already with me: a clear plastic dome that was used to hold a lemon ice cream/sorbet and a building I had previously purchased for Blue-City Park but never used as the scale wasn’t quite right.

The cardboard disk was cut to size and I started digging through the plastic building to make room for my Robot.

I laid down some thick pieces of paper to create a bit of volume, which ended up not being visible at all, unfortunately. Using many little pieces of paper, I added some details, trying to give a more “destroyed city” look. I used my good old grounded-coffee + white glue to make dirt patches and called it a day.

In the meantime, I worked on the Robot itself. My plan was to have a gray and green city (I added some bushes, vines and trees, not shown here), so I went with a blue Robot to contrast as much with the scene as possible.

Of course, it has to be beaten down so I used my pliers on the robot at some places and used paint to mimic more damage. As you’ll see in the final results, I added even more damage later on.

Good old T-011 had seen better days.

Beauty shots

A quick side-project that took a week of sporadic work between my work hours.

Like the other project, it’s also published on extrarobots.wordpress.com, working as a central hub for this whole project.

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