The Mandalorian Tatooine Diorama with Speeder Bike and Stormtrooper Heads

[@unknowneclipse332]

The 62 people who dislike this are clearly jealous this isn’t a part of heir collection

[@TheClutchCraft]

Yea fr, how can you dislike this video? 💀

[@BoulderCreekRailroad]

WOW this is amazing! 😃 Seeing you standing next to the diorama really shows how impressive this model is. It's huge! The diorama really highlights how well you painted the Mandalorian, the metal, his clothing everything is spot on. Keep up the awesome work, if this is the quality of videos you make for 2021 I suspect this will be a very good year for you 😉

[@Markovian_]

Yay it’s always fun to catch you tubers before they blow up.

[@KathyMillatt]

Thanks Luke! I do love big dioramas but keeping them in the house is a challenge. Happy New Year.

[@rexrocker1268]

👍🏻 Cool to see another awesome diorama person make a comment on another. I probably watched almost all of your videos and I don’t even build model railroads. My father did a few times. I still have one of his that was half done, no real scenery just the early parts like the basic land, track laid out and runs, maybe 4x6 feet. It was HO scale for a railroad roundhouse. I still have a bunch of his trains and cars and models still in the packaging, all vintage but really nice. He called it Polecat Creek. A polecat is a skunk or weasel LOL. My brother and I hope to one day try and complete it, we’ll probably use videos like yours and hers to get a clue how to make it look awesome.

[@centauri9458]

Cool. Well done. The bobble to the Troopers helmets makes it look like you could feel a hot dry breeze blowing them.

[@pepleatherlab3872]

To hide posts I usually use thin metals rods mounted at the very bottom of the base. The thinner surface area makes them easier to camouflage. Some shrubbery or rocks works well too.

[@KathyMillatt]

Thanks. I only had springy rods and was worried they’d bend over time. Next time I’ll go shopping before I need to mount something.

[@pepleatherlab3872]

@@KathyMillatt It is tricky because the thin metal rods require a bit of an inverted 'T' to give them stability when mounted into wood or foam. Dioramas can be tricky buggers. Thanks for the post.

[@KathyMillatt]

@@pepleatherlab3872 Thanks for the help!

[@thepwee]

Holy crap.... I’ve been build models for 40 years now... I believe I’m pretty good at it...the tile grout thing is brilliant.. I would have never thought of that...amazing job.. thanks for teaching an old dog a new trick..!!!

[@KathyMillatt]

I use it all the time and even when I try other products, I still end up coming back to it as it’s so easy and cheap.

[@GiantBoarMonster]

That's a masterpiece. "It belongs in a museum!" Incredible attention to detail.

[@Rick_Cleland]

_"So do you!!"_

[@TriniChiniese]

I absolutely love you narrating in the video. excellent job it was very educational and entertaining .

[@TheClutchCraft]

I haven’t seen any dioramas to do with the 422nd siege troopers, if your planning to do another diorama, possibly a 422nd one (but don’t worry if you don’t, I’m sure you got some brilliant ideas already planned out! I’ll be watching a lot more of this channel, and I fear my hours of the day will be.. well, stuck to this channel 😂

[@KathyMillatt]

Thanks! I think a few clone force 99 dioramas are next when the KS ends.

[@RedWolf777SG]

As an artist myself, you've done a fantastic job with this one, dear. This would make any Star Wars fan happy to own.🥰🥰

[@tydra74]

outstanding job. To hide the main bike pole, I would connect the bike to the vertical wall with an horizontal, sturdy pin, reducing the distance between the bike and the wall at the minimum . very great job. I love it

[@KathyMillatt]

Thanks! The bike was heavy enough to bend the vertical rod so I suspect something from the side would need to be very strong.

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

Beautifully done, you should be in movies

[@tp6498]

Hiya Kathy. I was surfing on youtube this morning (USA, est), and I came upon your Mandalorian diorama. Truly amazing work. I was blown away by the amount of time, effort and attention to detail you put into making sand and dust look like, well...sand and dust lol. I couldn't hit that like button fast enough and you now have a new subscriber from "across the pond" lol. Stay healthy and God bless.

[@Vader2501]

My dad used to make models, nice to watch someone else do it. Brings back memories from childhood. On the speeder bike stand, maybe a thin mirror? The old magicians trick, place it in front angled down so it reflect the floor. Might work as the floor and the wall are roughly the same colour. Just a thought.

[@KathyMillatt]

Interesting idea. Thank you.

[@Bluenkight]

Beautiful work Kathy... I love the child in the pouch,,,,

[@pedroantoniodacruzferreira1487]

Stunning! This could be a real set for a movie scene!!!

[@KathyMillatt]

Thank you so much!

[@Singularityphotography]

Awesome, thank you for sharing your wonderful art and modelling.

[@troseberry91585]

KZbin just suggested your channel to me this morning and I literally just watched your first Mandalorian video maybe 30 minutes ago and have been watching your other videos. Amazing work! Thanks for the great content!

[@cryofpaine]

These are so cool! For the speeder support, you could do a few things. The easiest would be a support that doesn't go straight down, but goes out to the background before going down, and then comes back. That way you can hide it behind a box (maybe even print a box as part of the support), or as a pipe that fits into the background (say a drain pipe that comes down to just above the ground, and the support becomes the bottom), or something like that. That way it doesn't look like you're trying to hide something. And when it comes back to the base, carve a channel for it to hide in and then cover that part of the support with sand (you would want a square mount for that so it lays flat). The other option would be using magnets to make it levitate, but that would be tricky to get the positioning just right. And I'm not sure how those levitating objects do it, but I think you might need a magnet above and below to get it to work. So you might put an awning or something like that to hide the top magnet.

[@KathyMillatt]

The speeder bike is so heavy it bent the resin pole it is on so it would have to be substantial supports to hold it from the side. Having recently done magnets in a video, they are not as easy as everyone makes out. I’m not sure I’d want to try them on such a heavy bike.

[@ItsMe_Pop]

This video literally made me feel like a child again! AMAZING WORK! Great attention to detail.

[@georgepeel]

Absolutely incredible! Still can't get over how good Mando looks, those speeder bike prints were so clean too

[@johnkelley9877]

This is simply outstanding work! It is so realistic that it looks like a screen shot. Thanks for sharing this helpful and inspiring diorama.

[@vikingvikingviking2806]

Thanks for sharing this with us! The video quality is excellent as well!

[@Kilgore1004]

I actually said "holy shit" out loud when you first showed the 3d printed speeder, I totally underestimated the size. The rest of this video did not disappoint. Absolutely incredible work. I need this for the mantle!

[@chrisw5760]

What an awesome diorama. Keep up the great work you do and thanks for sharing your videos.

[@BoomerKeith1]

I like the use of the jetpack to hide the stand. I think acrylic would have looked out of place. Well done!

[@silvervalleystudios2486]

Great job with the Stormtrooper helmets. I will need to get myself a 3d printer to make accessories for my 1/6 figures.

[@monkeyzeetube]

wow..nice..a lot of work and materials..and patience..

[@adamswitlak1242]

Well done, Kathy. Impressive and very inspiring job. Regards from Poland

[@shutinyanks]

worth waiting for. Also you could print a mount for the speeder bike in clear resin for example and just sand and polish it clear so it will be super difficult to even see.

[@KathyMillatt]

They do supply mounts to print in clear and I did wonder whether it would be a better idea but this was one mount and that would have been two. I probably should have tried it.

[@kostasviper]

That's awesome! Quick pro-tip if I may give you one: For under vehicle dust, try grinding some brown chalk (like the ones in school) if you can find it, and apply that... It doesn't even need any adhesive medium, it just stays on by itself, and it is great for that dusty look.

[@KathyMillatt]

Great tip.

[@simonreynolds1518]

Wonderful model and diorama Kathy, Thank you so much for building it, I use to use either a metal rod to support my model builds and find a way of hiding it as much as possible from the main sight line or clear acrylic rod, used that on the Airfix (I think) kit of the Imperial Speeder Bike from Return of the Jedi, looking forward to your next video, take care, stay safe and Happy New Year to you and the family.

[@KathyMillatt]

Thanks! Metal rod would be thinner so less obtrusive.

[@simonreynolds1518]

@@KathyMillatt Hi Kathy, I forgot to say I always found I had to make sure there was as much support as possible within the model for either the metal or acrylic rod, sometimes it was easy with most kits being in two halves, it's been 25 years or so since I last sat down and built a kit, no amazing 3D printers back then, it would have been considered pretty sci fi to be able to print your own model kit at home, I assume it would be possible to print a strong internal support base for a rod to fit into the model if it was not a solid piece like The Mandalorian speeder, I'm sure your creative mind will have fun figuring it out, once again thank you for all your builds, I miss my train sets and making models so I do look forward to your videos and your dioramas, they are just so wonderful.

[@luisd.pacheco1074]

THIS DIORAMA " AWESOME" this is a thing I watch almost all STAR WARS movies, some movies I even try NO to watch because I know are BAD, BUT THE MANDALORIAN series IS MY FAVORITE STAR WARS CHARACTER and is the only I want to collect. If I have the half of your talent. I make my own statue collection. BEAUTIFUL AMAZING JOB. CONGRATULATION FROM 🇵🇷

[@alexcharles8541]

This turned out pretty sick. 10/10

[@charleswhitley4347]

Maybe a mirror piece angled in front of the spike toward the sand would give the illusion of floating. Your diorama looks amazing!

[@KathyMillatt]

Interesting idea!

[@sprucehouse9]

Absolutely BRILLIANT! A real show piece. I guess I am definitely going to have to break down and get a 3D printer. There's so much cool Star Wars stuff to be had that way.

[@Jasonyerface]

Amazing work. How are people thumbs-downing this?

[@0to100Art]

Really pretty and so satisfying to watch. Very peaceful. Thank you

[@KathyMillatt]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@fotomakr]

Wow! Really impressive build.

[@philsmith7398]

Brilliant! The difference between a technician and an artist! Your weathering is the best I've seen. I think you should work for ILM!

[@ARIN4UK]

Holy wow…. Truly an amazing artist.

[@thomasmccaskill5197]

Absolutely love it awesome job I am a big fan of your channel and bug fan of the Mandalorian

[@thx1138y]

Hi Kathy,i enjoyed watch this , i dont realize until you finished and the time pass really fast..many questions,many dubts..but is part of the magic.Tks..(sorry my English)

[@marcosousa1821]

Being a long time action figure collector who has just recently started sharing videos of my collection online, I have to say: you, my friend, are an artist! Dioramas such as this sure embellish anyone's collection. Thanks for sharing! Great job👍💫Cheers Kathy!

[@dioramagerry2581]

Superbe travail BRAVO c'est incroyable le réalisme les détails félicitations un plaisir a regarder c'est de l'art

[@ollien3359]

"The stormtroopers go into bobble-head mode... it's very funny" she says smiling, as the severed heads of her enemies sway side to side...

[@hemble]

Excellent work and for tarps I use dried baby wipes, the ones with no patterns on them and the result is excellent

[@KathyMillatt]

Brilliant! I was struggling to find something.

[@dutch_blades]

I love these larger scale dioramas. Fantastic end result!

[@jasonwells5737]

I just want to say you do some amazing work. Very inspiring

[@KathyMillatt]

Thank you so much!

[@simonmoss101]

Another awesome job Kathy. I like the new style of videos your making with a complete build from start to finish.

[@KathyMillatt]

Thanks. It’s great to show the process from start to finish.

[@krltslnd4186]

😍beautiful ... I'm doing a razor crest right now😊

[@vinnyvidivici]

The attention to detail is incredible.

[@udorechner6846]

What a brilliant build. The diorama looks wonderful.

[@reimannsum9077]

This was simply an enthralling process to watch as it unfolded, and your voice-over was incredibly clear and precise. Thank you for sharing your work with us.

[@aigen56]

I am in awe of your beautiful work, this is fantastic. You are a very talented imaginative artist. Thank you for uploading your works.

[@veneozzy]

Great work of art ! Greetings from Brazil

[@franckbenjamin5062]

Many détails,many work and many talent!A big diorama amazing.you are an artist.

[@dell2man]

WOW! What a beautiful build. And at such a large scale. Great Job!!

[@christopherwieber783]

Ms Kathy Millatt you are quite simply a masterful craftsman and brilliant artist. I was completely captivated by your skill, perfection, and if I'm honest your exquisite feminine hands and gorgeous red hair :) Cheers!

[@seanlewthwaite3735]

Love it all... for me to cover the pole that supports the speeder, I would have used some cloth, in the way you did the canopy, draped it over the bike as if it were some sort of bike cover that had blown off slightly... enough to cover the pole. But absolutely LOVE everything you have done!!

[@KathyMillatt]

That’s a neat idea!

[@darthbuzz1]

This is brilliant work and some great tips and tricks there. You are truly a skilled model maker. I have just looked you up and now realise where I have heard your voice before... The Great Model Railway Challenge. And I liked and SUBSCRIBED.

[@nobbynose4254]

really appreciate all the details and explanation of techniques we never stop learning fantastic job

[@rexrocker1268]

Awesome, that could be at the Disney World Park in a museum area.

[@kenmercadante4565]

Absolutely gorgeous work.

[@S0bek]

Great work! You're a wizard Kathy!

[@StormofSteelWargaming]

Those washes are excellent.

[@ivantheemanriquez7336]

This was equal parts therapeutic, fulfilling, and interesting. Nearing the end is when I realized the video was 20+ minutes long! This was an awesome video.

[@TATICMOOR]

What can one say, it's something Star Wars and it's made by you. The attention to details is fantastic and the total build outcome is mind blowing beautiful. I love seeing your work Kathy and viewing the end results to the modelled diorama's.

[@Yalah_]

Love how this is framed as almost a tutorial in case anyone wanted to do this themselves. I learned a lot from this video! thanks! and this diorama is amazing!!!

[@Catchandelier22]

There are sprayers that use a pressurized chamber to move material instead of hand power. I see them at garden centers all the time. For your tile grout as sand or surface jobs, they might be useful to move a Lot of product very quickly. I’ve also seen them in a variety of sizes, so- anyway, they might be no use to you, but as someone with pretty severe nerve damage, I just wanted to mention it. Getting into modeling like this is always pretty interesting to me, but I do have to weigh it against how much my body will let me do… Love your channel, subscribed and enjoying every moment.

[@KathyMillatt]

Thanks for that. Sounds useful.

[@markknowles6374]

I'm just into Season 2 of The Mandalorian and your diorama absolutely captures the drama and feel of the on screen version. Absolutely brilliant.

[@chrisC052]

Greeting from Jacksonville, Florida. What a wonderful and amazing diorama. I live to build model's but never did a diorama. Your video has inspired me to try. I thoroughly enjoyed the video, it was professional and very informative. You done an amazing job Ms. Kathy, I had to subscribe to your channel after I watched it. This really made my day. Thank you.👍👍

[@scottphillipy9831]

That is one incredible build. The detail is amazing. Thanks for sharing

[@DMTCOMPOSER]

BRAVO!!! Pure joy to watch you work and the results, stunning! Blessings

[@carlosgallardopalma]

Congrats! The work it's very realistic , badass your work!

[@jameswaters4024]

This is the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time. WOW !

[@TranceTrousers]

Wow, absolutely stunning! I can't believe the amount of work that goes into something like this, but it's all worth it for the end result. Bravo! I haven't watched The Mandalorian yet but I've heard great things about it. I really should as I'm a big fan of Star Wars, well all Sci-Fi actually ❤ xxx

[@paulvanappeven3340]

Wow great work. Fantastic 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇧🇪 greetings from Belgium.

[@domis1190]

Fabulous Scene with the Mandalorian... I mean, so realistic...You should maybe do some diorama for 1/6 hot toys/sideshow figures that could go in a detolf ikea display and sell it. I will be here like probably many others. THX for that video.

[@Tivuron_Dantes]

You can put the speder glued by sticks to the wall

[@KathyMillatt]

Thanks. I just worry it’s a little heavy for that with a foam wall so I would need to add some extra supports.

[@laurie.n2487]

Looks amazing! I rethink its harder to keeps things simpler

[@gkspain1]

Fantastic diorama, all the best, Garry

[@RustbeltCollector]

INCREDIBLE! This was very helpful to see your exact layering process on this!

[@SandraOrtmann1976]

Supercool! Love this. Grogu seems to be looking forward a lot to a little speeder bike ride with his daddy.

[@marshalldoyle1129]

For attaching the speeder bike, you could lean the jet pack next to it but then run some wire from a clothes hanger through the jet pack and into the speeder bike. That will make it stand without any sign of a support.

[@KathyMillatt]

I like that!

[@Wi-Fi-El]

This is epic! I really wish I had a 3D printer, but for the time being I have to work with clay and kitbashed stuff

[@KathyMillatt]

I’ve seen some amazing work in clay!

[@Maker_of_Things]

Not seen the show/film(?) so no context for me but it is a really good diorama. My thoughts on the floating speeder, with no end of hindsight, would be to have a support out of that rear offside pannier bag straight into the wall. It looks like it is almost touching anyway so a camouflaged rod would be pretty much completely hidden.

[@jimmd68]

That was my thought, too. A wall mounting would be good but not sure if the speeder is too long and heavy for a single support. Perhaps an angled support from the speeder to the ground near the wall? The visual problem is having a noticeable shadow. Also lowering the height of the speeder above the ground may help a little. A great diorama no matter what!

[@KathyMillatt]

It is sadly too heavy for one support at an end. If I’d thought about it earlier, I could probably have done that though by adapting the model. The height was an interesting one. I tried to set it to the height in the series but there’s no hard and fast rule.

[@Maker_of_Things]

@@KathyMillatt That's the thing. With bags of hindsight a strong cantilever and a lightweight print would make it possible. But that's hindsight for you. It is also why I am much less productive as I spend too much time thinking about the hindsight and not enough time getting on with the making. 🤣

[@KathyMillatt]

@@Maker_of_Things “perfect is the enemy of done” to quote Peter McKinnon.

[@jimmd68]

@@Maker_of_Things "Analysis Paralysis"!

[@MattFrahm]

This is absolutely astonishing, well done.

[@MartinFutter70]

Awesome scene to go with your fantastically painted Mando and child. Great voiceover telling us about your techniques, very professional & most welcome, as a Stormtrooper aficionado, you missed the tube stripes either side of the helmets & and the eye lenses are clear green, but hell it's your model do as you wish, better than I could do, keep on modelling 👍👌❤

[@KathyMillatt]

I couldn’t work out how to do the grips well so left them off. Sometimes it’s better to omit something than do it badly. The series showed the eyes fogged up a little so I wanted a whitish finish but the grey is a little off colour.

[@TheOniDaddy]

this Diorama really completes it!

[@Catarrer]

This is so fu**ing awesom! It could be a frame frome the original series! Well done! I enjoy it really much!

[@KathyMillatt]

Wow, thank you!

[@-MrFozzy-]

Your awesome Kathy…very good explanations. Thanks so much

[@ExileDCC]

Amazing work. The diorama matches The Mandalorian figure that you did beautifully.

[@eifionjones559]

interesting and informative . I too make dioramas, but with me it involves industrial plants and model steam engines that actually work. as realistic as possible. Not to everybody's taste but something I enjoy

[@Juan_Doooh]

Great job, and such attention to detail.

[@emilflognoid1532]

Working on my first Star Wars diorama, it’s Rey and her speeder on Jakku... for the sand I made a foam base and just covered it with polymer modified white tile thin-set... seems to have worked really good straight out of the bag!

[@KathyMillatt]

Brilliant! That’s a great scene and sounds like you’ve cracked it.

[@joshmarkobb4513]

Acrylic or wire off the back wall to make the bike appear to be hovering.

[@KathyMillatt]

Thanks. I’d have to do an internal support as the foam wouldn’t be strong enough.

[@rodagoose]

Very nice! And also inspirational. Thank you for sharing!

[@Matches771]

It is insane, when i think about how many hours you put into building this with such love for the details. But i gotta say, it definitely shows and surely payed off! I love it

[@JochenSteglich]

That looks really impressive!!! Suggestion: If the speeder bike was attached to the wall behind it with a horizontal mount, it would actually look as if it was floating.

[@BXDRAGONX1]

WOW. Amazing....I love this show too.