Hello, I made this nifty Diorama from 1 inch thick Polystyrene Foam insulation. It has three walls and a grass ground. The diorama is 14 and 1/2 inches tall and about 28 inches wide.

I started out by taking a tape measure and a straight edge ruler and used them with a sharpie marker to mark the dimensions on a huge sheet of the polystyrene foam so that I could have wall pieces and a ground piece that fit into my bookshelf. I used a serrated kitchen knife to cut the pieces and then used a 3m small sanding sponge to make the edges smooth.

The polystyrene foam I used had a thin layer of plastic covering it. I kept that plastic on while I used a c-thru 8ths 12 inch beveled ruler and a sharpie marker to make 4 rows of bricks on the tops and bottoms of each wall. I made nearly each brick an inch wide. Then I used an x-acto knife to cut the lines I made for the brick design. After I had that done I took all of that plastic off the foam pieces.

The next thing I did was texturing. I laid the walls down flat and poured a small amount of kitty litter on them and pressed the litter down with the palm of my hand. I then took a metal zippo lighter (that had a bottom about the size of the bricks) and used it to randomly push in a few of the bricks to give some an indented look. I also added a very few cracks into the back wall with the x-acto knife.

The next step was to start painting. I used a 3 inch wide flat brush to paint all three walls and the ground with a cheap acrylic black paint. Once it was all dried I used a different kind of brush and a acrylic red ochre color paint and started dry-brushing the bricks with it on each of the walls. I cleaned the brush with water after I got done and then used it again to dry-brush an acrylic grey color to the parts of the walls that weren't brick to make a concrete look. I painted over the black of the ground piece with a acrylic burnt umber color (brown) with the 3 inch flat brush.

I used a woodland scenics grass and foliage kit to make the grass effects on the ground. Came with some glue that you can make into a spray with water. I used that and the little bag of grass it came with to cover nearly all of the ground. It also came with some dark forest grass, which I used and put on some of the bricks.

So that's it. Pretty simple really. I really hope someone who does not know a thing about making dioramas sees this and is inspired to do so now.

I'd like to thank figurerealm members no1609 and dioramax for helping me when I didn't know a thing about making dioramas.