Wild Imaginary West | Mine Diorama

#Astronaut #Miner #Diorama
This week I built my own original piece inspired by two of the greatest themes in entertainment, Western and Sci-fi. A miner is being visited by some space traveling Pinkertons. They are soliciting their protective services from bandits and robbers.
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Paint List:
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Vallejo Iraqui Sand
Citadel Nuln oil
Citadel Reikland Fleshshade
Vallejo Gloss Black
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Vallejo Mahogany Brown
Citadel Ironhands Steel
Krylon Matte Finish
Music:
Cowboy Lullaby - JHS Pedals
Stinson - Reed Mathis
Autumn Wind - Dyalla
The Colonel - Zachariah Hickman
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[@Pierce.Lone.Tree.Productions]

Wow I cant believe I've been watching all your wild imaginary west videos for over 2 YEARS! Now that's crazy

[@euansmith3699]

Fantastic. The Pinkerton's logo on flag is a neat touch. I hope that the miners know that the Pinkertons are probably there to spread dissent among the workers as usual. The combination of Wild West and Sci-Fi is really cool.

[@NorthoftheBorder]

The light wash over the zenithal highlighting makes me wonder how easily it would be to highlight all the edges with a black and get the aforementioned "Borderlands" cell shading look.

[@Poloposi]

Hi

[@Jaybiiird]

So this is how the wild imaginary west was born! What a wonderful series, Im so glad you started it!!!

[@jg1019]

The tank contains a highly corrosive acid. The pipes go down to each level of the mines where there is a spigot, attached to which is what Is essentially an acid fire extinguisher used for killing the giant spiders that occasionally find their way into the mines from connected cave systems.

[@iangreen4572]

Would make a good outpost from the " Firefly "/ " Serenity " verse.

[@chrislambert238]

Just came to say the same thing.

[@ElementAir83]

Same here.. was also getting a kind of Trigun vibe too

[@isaachugh1063]

it was the guitar for me that made me remember that gem.

[@andrewb9590]

The end music definitely gives it that feeling.

[@parzival-firsttothekey4299]

Would be awesome if he made a Firefly diorama

[@LaserGadgets]

More of this please. And I think Cali gold miners get a sunburn during their work, alaskan gold miners frost burn.

[@CraigH999]

LOL that's funny except that you can't placer mine in the winter! Ground frozen, water frozen, mule frozen, miner frozen. 😁

[@LaserGadgets]

@@CraigH999 Wild Subnautica Sub Zero West

[@jacobgoodstone7572]

No it's that Californian miners surf in their free time, but Alaskan miners just get eaten by grizzly bears or something.

[@LaserGadgets]

@@jacobgoodstone7572 Meanwhile, at the Hoffman's camp.

[@quitra3571]

Awesome. I had no idea kinder eggs were illegal in the US. They're very popular here in Canada

[@hayate503]

thank you for making videos i know you will most likely not see it but your videos are very calming and ure officially my new youtube safespace that i recommend everyone

[@VariablePenguin]

Loving this series. And I'm watching it backwards for some reason.

[@Onetruescotty]

Pinkerton Detective Agency is now part of the Securitas AB corporate banner and still operates internationally- just as an aside. Build looks amazing as always!

[@tcemedic100]

Love the work, I’m an official fan boy. I’d love to see more of your imaginations come to life.

[@OscarSabaterCruz]

The tank is obviously for the beer, c'mon!

[@jazzman782000]

You sure get a lot of mileage out of that plastic grid canvass. Fascinating what you can make with that stuff.

[@seankitchen9100]

You 'call it good', we call it incredible.

[@GatchamanG4]

I usually wash the plastic model part s in Dawn Ultra dish detergent. Really cleans the slippery mold release from the parts leaving them squeaky clean. Also helps the paint adhere better. Love your builds!

[@TECsta76]

Watching this in the canteen at work, And you just know everyone is digging the husky Midwest voiceover!! 👍✨

[@marvellousprime9445]

I'm honestly very surprised you didn't hollow out some of the foam for the mine but hey it still looks scarily awesome!!!!

[@Triosephosphate]

The Astronaut: to infinity and beyond That cowboy: there's a snake in my boot!

[@rohitmeshram1412]

After watching entire wild west build, i am here, and i realised there is no antennaaaaaa 😂❤️. Awesome build

[@robfargher1433]

This has to be one of the best alternate Universes ever imagined, or lived in.

[@teaguejelinek4038]

That informative bit about the kinder toys with your monotone voice was pretty funny

[@DiggerPrints0814]

Man, even before priming the landscape it looked awesome

[@KnarbMakes]

I love the aesthetic of this Diorama. Space westerns hold a special place in my heart.

[@creatrixcorvusarts876]

Fun fact: the banning of Kinder Surprise eggs stems from an old law from the FDA around what constitutes food and what doesn’t, back when fake milk was being sold and kids were dying from that. The law affects the Kinder Surprise eggs because the toys are encased inside the chocolate…… Edit: nice build! It really was from scratch!

[@dougsundseth6904]

Mostly. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (the act under which Kinder Eggs are banned in the US) is generally seen as the founding of the FDA. So the law caused the FDA rather than the FDA causing the law. I consider the banning of Kinder Eggs to be an overreaction, but the act itself makes sense if you see what was being done 115 years ago. (Sawdust to bulk out foods was the least of the problems.)

[@sonnyjimm23]

I mean the kids could just shoot the fake milk with their guns. Problem solved.

[@Bail.e_y]

I feel so calmed watching you making these like asmr

[@manuelkress8554]

„Kinderüberraschung“ is great! It should be worth to die for😉😂.

[@MischeelArt]

Die guten Ü-Eier 🤣

[@wallywest4274]

one of those times we need a double thumbs up button. gonna go watch some Firefly.

[@TheDystopianAmbianceProject]

I'm from Europe, and trust me... Kinder Surprise is a plague of death and devastation. You're so lucky. Amazing channel (I didn't know). When I saw the miniature on recommendation I through in Borderlands games, so when you have mentioned it, I've just feel like a exciting teen fan. Also, incredible work!

[@krztfr776]

Very Brave Starr/ Trigun/Firefly feel, LOVE IT

[@oldskooljules]

This is very pleasingly ramshackle, and I love it.

[@Bpdiericks]

The music at the end is reminiscent of the firefly verse. Great series

[@ScratchBashing]

bud this is so close to the Warhammer aesthetic. Nicely done!

[@philtobin9510]

The tank is for gold leaching. I often sit back in my chair and watch you build. Shame about Kinda eggs, we have them but they tend not to have kits any more.

[@EricsHobbyWorkshop]

Very cool! Its so tiny. I think they are called “barrel loops”

[@TheSurlySoutherner]

Tank's for Moonshine obviously! ;-) Awesome build. I wish I had this kind of patience.

[@solvince6421]

I love every single thing about this

[@FlameTheTurtle]

Every time it just looks so real

[@2CraftySeniors]

First of the great Wild Imaginary West series! Cool. Just for information... "During the 20th century, Pinkerton rebranded itself into a personal security and risk management firm. The company has continued to exist in various forms through to the present day, and is now a division of the Swedish security company Securitas AB, operating as Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, Inc." "The company has its U.S. headquarters in Westlake Village, California."

[@joel5314]

Since I watched one vid i'm hooked , I love this wild west world you created

[@rwillmottrw]

Really love watching yr builds and the law behind it all.

[@Juan_Doooh]

Your creativity never disappoints. Should’ve made the astronaut up like the MTV astronaut.

[@AbandonedMiniatures]

Amazing as always. Almost every one of your builds makes me think of how much fun I would have lighting and filming your dios. They are always very well composed.

[@Boylei]

Thanks so much! I look at all your dioramas and think the same thing.

[@dilihopa]

Thank you Canadian Government for allowing me to enjoy a Kinder Surprise egg! Great work, love the imaginative genre!

[@kngsnz1684]

Heeeeyyy another fellow Coloradan I’ve lived here my whole life and I can say it feels great to know someone else out there has a connection to those mines and loves the historical feel and look to them. I love your work man keep it up maybe we’ll run into each other one day lol

[@carrie4910]

Nice! Gives me a bit of a Firefly vibe.

[@Sackit26]

Cool build, reminds me a lot of firefly.

[@toastedchicken4419]

I love old abandoned stuff from the 1800s. It is very interesting. I used to live in Arizona where there are a lot if mines. Thanks for the good video! Have a nice day.

[@notyourroad]

Fricken epic build dude. Excellent use of random pieces.

[@kenspriggs5687]

Excellent scratch-building!

[@jacobhope6164]

Dude! That's frickin' sweet! (What a New West California gold miner might say) 😉

[@gargapapa1867]

This made me think about the mineshaft level in this old strategy game named Desperado. A pretty cool one actually !

[@sergioforte3695]

Muito bom. Espetacular, fantástico. Que criatividade.

[@supbarook2799]

This would probably be really difficult but would be cool as hell too see. Palpatine and Windu when Windu is deflecting the lighting back at Palpatine in revenge of the Sith.

[@Nikolapoleon]

I work at a museum in what used to be a mining town. We have a drum of what used to be sodium cyanide in one of the exhibits, since it could be used to dissolve precious metals. The idea was that the waste material could be dumped, and the dissolved metals could be extracted from the liquid later, using a separate process. So maybe that's what your vat of "mining liquid" is in this diorama.

[@notfeedynotlazy]

Can confirm that the steel hoops used to cinch barrels are called, unsurprisingly, hoops.

[@bmxadventures]

The metal bands of a barrel are rungs. This is my favorite chanel at the moment!

[@Rico-ir6hk]

wow, what an amazing result

[@microcoaster]

That’s insanely beautiful

[@josephunderwood1228]

Greetings from Pueblo. Thoroughly enjoy the channel!

[@firstnamelastname1101]

Guitar strings - cool. I'm a player too and often find uses for them in my builds.

[@mparis130]

Loved the story around this!

[@Wrenn-lr9gh]

Thank you so much for these cowboy dystopian land it led me to create my own universe similar

[@scrathed]

Just checked on the Pinkertons wikipedia article - goodness, their motto is "We never sleep". Lord that is creepy. Love the idea of having a few astronaut agents walk into that mine :D

[@robnzombiz]

Love it!! And also the Kinder Joy Egg story in the US. Here in Austria they still are legal and called Kinder Überraschungsei 😅

[@lauraandedwardcannon8861]

The tank is for mercury. It is often used in gold mining. The light houses in California used to use mercury in bearings but it was always being stolen and used for gold extraction.

[@Djkold]

The chocolate in those Kinder Egg Surprise is the best though!

[@jfunderburk1989]

Strong Firefly Vibes. Love this man!

[@natefessler3961]

I was getting Borderlands vibes from this before you said anything about it. I'd say you achieved the look very well!

[@Voirreydirector]

In 1926 my grandmother came in from the country to work in the area’s first gas station to see a new type of iron work being used to repair the nearby bridge. At the same time a lot of ice houses were being torn down along the river and so every night grandpa Frank and she brought home whatever the empty milk cart could carry of the detritus.That’s how stuff was built, half of this becomes that, miners having already rusty equipment along with old wood is accurate in spirit. Very cool.

[@blackjack9612]

This universe gives me big RimWorld vibes

[@mistac5050]

This is freaking outstanding!!! I was getting big thunder mountain railroad vibes the whole time while I was watching this! The paint application is simply bonkers. Watching you paint dioramas in this scale is a master class. The color of the rockwork and rusted old metal are so convincing. And let's just stick with mining liquid!

[@endersblade]

This was ridiculously cool!

[@Grevlain]

This is good. I mean...really really good. It hit me at the end - Firefly! You gotta do a Firefly/Serenity inspired build!

[@bankamarvin2269]

Love your off the wall dioramas.

[@shawnlanphere3978]

Love your commentary. 😆 The art work is pretty good too. 😁

[@pmedic523]

Man way cool. I do love old mining places. Very awesome. Got to visit the old gold mines down in Creede Colorado and it's really something to see these things that people made over a hundred years ago. Was kinda calming to me looking at the left over buildings, rails, cable systems etc. Man I'm so glad the evil kinder egg things are outlawed here in the USA I will definitely be sleeping better tonight, thanks!

[@SlickDiecast]

So glad this was recommended for me. And you nailed it with the Kinder Eggs thing.

[@aardnorstudios]

I have really enjoyed your futuristic wildwest videos - very interesting to blend these two milieus together!

[@rickylafleur9855]

Loving the creativity

[@benpine8597]

My favourite so far! Nice!

[@steven1145]

When I first subscribed it was for your Star Wars themed builds.. But now I find myself with post notifications on and watching every video you upload almost as soon as it's released! Keep up the awesome work!

[@tbone12051]

All of your videos are fascinating as hell!! Please keep making more

[@agenda3854]

I think that tank is holding what they’re mining for

[@Nosculptor]

Great character contrast! And I also like the you built it more vertically than horizontally.

[@Lindeman08]

I think the tank is a filter that is part of the recycling system for the water coolant of the big drill down there. Even small gold particles can be worth hanging on to.

[@thedarkknight803able]

That is Awesome!💥😁👍🏿

[@lancerandall3556]

You make this stuff look so easy, but I know it's definitely not. Man, I'm in awe of your skill

[@fraxz88]

Very nice scratch build. Currently I'm working on an N scale railroad diorama of Phantom Canyon Road in Colorado. There's not the best info on it, but I make it up along the way. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@BillMakingStuff]

Thank you for the shout out, much appreciated! Build is great too by the way.

[@wyattbigelow8243]

Wow, great use of the gold miners, looks amazing as always. Thanks.

[@tosteson1]

Hot damn. Strong Firefly energy.

[@justasuggestion8216]

Very creative. Really enjoyed it

[@peterjozsef448]

Loved the music too, great job

[@amos6235]

Wow, this turned out really well!

[@mestapho2011]

only thing about on the fly is i find my self getting stuck by going overboard in the details. with a plan i still go overboard.. but i don't get stuck as i do on the fly.. lol. great build. you have a unique collection of various type dios. this is a really cool build and looks complicated yet it's a simple design.

[@Law030811]

Getting some strong Fallout: New Vegas vibes, super cool.

[@felixberglund9218]

You keeps to amaze me my friend! Loving this "freestyle" work!

[@joaquinrenesanchez6993]

Thanks again for another great build. My son wants to be a filmmaker and your creativity reminds me of his, in that your dioramas tell a story. You are right about the Pinkertons. They often represented the robber barons and corporate interests during the 19th century. This usually included busting up unions and any attempt to organize workers, including miners, by any means necessary. Keep up the good work!

[@dannielsen348]

I get a Outer Wilds vibe with the backstory. Pretty cool.