Kitchen Diorama

Here is the latest set I've been working on. I still haven't decided whether it will be the Ammo Arms kitchen or an apartment kitchen. The kitchen units, cooker and oven are of course vintage Sindy items. The table and chairs are a little hostess Marx item. I found the set in a charity shop. The window is a custom made window I got from ebay. Tabi has already made herself at home.

That’s really cool. Looks like an awesome set. And your pictures are cute. Love her sitting on the chair.

Playing video games and posing for selfies? I guess the kitchen is not her natural element!

Love this! You can’t beat the old Sindy kitchen units for their realism and functionality!

Wow it looks very realistic. Especially the chair. Guess the doors are functional?

That is a very cool and useful diorama. For many everyday scenes. Lovely posed.

I never owned a gameboy, which could have been a blessing looking back.

Excellent addition to your dioramas. Nicely done and so realistic. I'm pretty sure this is an apartment kitchen on an upper story of the same building where the Ammo Arms is located.
And those are not selfies, but photos snapped by her beau du jour (I'm not going to name him, lest I make a mistake and Dal has to deal with "this means war" among his employees).

GubernatorFan wrote:
And those are not selfies, but photos snapped by her beau du jour....

I was attempting to be... diplomatic.

I like it but it looks like a kitchen that girls use for Instagram photos instead of one that actually gets used. The custom window is excellent.

Where did you find the sink?

shazzdan wrote:I like it but it looks like a kitchen that girls use for Instagram photos instead of one that actually gets used. The custom window is excellent.

Where did you find the sink?

Nice observation. Maybe she and her beau du jour ate out last night.
I would assume the sink was part of the kitchen set.

Stryker2011 wrote:That’s really cool. Looks like an awesome set. And your pictures are cute. Love her sitting on the chair.

Thanks Mark! I was pleased with how it turned out so far .

davidd wrote:Playing video games and posing for selfies? I guess the kitchen is not her natural element!

No Dave, she is more at home on mission .

Lynkhart wrote:Love this! You can’t beat the old Sindy kitchen units for their realism and functionality!

I agree! They are brilliant items and in perfect scale to the figures.

Ovy wrote:Wow it looks very realistic. Especially the chair. Guess the doors are functional?

Thanks Ovy! yes mate, the doors and drawers open too .

Valiarde wrote:That is a very cool and useful diorama. For many everyday scenes. Lovely posed.

I never owned a gameboy, which could have been a blessing looking back.

Thanks so much!

GubernatorFan wrote:Excellent addition to your dioramas. Nicely done and so realistic. I'm pretty sure this is an apartment kitchen on an upper story of the same building where the Ammo Arms is located.
And those are not selfies, but photos snapped by her beau du jour (I'm not going to name him, lest I make a mistake and Dal has to deal with "this means war" among his employees).

Thanks Ian, I am hoping to make good use of it.

davidd wrote:

GubernatorFan wrote:
And those are not selfies, but photos snapped by her beau du jour....

I was attempting to be... diplomatic.

shazzdan wrote:I like it but it looks like a kitchen that girls use for Instagram photos instead of one that actually gets used. The custom window is excellent.

Where did you find the sink?

Thank you! Not quite sure what you mean about the insta girls? like looks to new and unused? if so, I'm hoping that as I add more pieces, it will lose it's unused feel . The window is a custom made one from ebay. It's actually 1/12 scale large bay window, but it worked perfectly for my needs. The sink is a complete Sindy item. pretty sure you can find them in the U.S. however, they may be marketed under a different name?

Thanks again everyone for all the positive feedback

I think the Sindy/Pedigree stuff was also sold under the Marx trademark in the US if that’s any help. You can find them pretty cheaply on U.K. eBay if you’re willing to buy things separately- you’ve done well with the set of drawers, that always goes for more I’ve noticed!

I ended up redoing it with LEDS because I didn’t trust the batteries, but the vintage Sindy fridge I got actually still had a functional light that went on when you opened the door! They’re such well designed sets, and they’re very easy to customise if you want a more modern look.

Lynkhart wrote:I think the Sindy/Pedigree stuff was also sold under the Marx trademark in the US if that’s any help. You can find them pretty cheaply on U.K. eBay if you’re willing to buy things separately- you’ve done well with the set of drawers, that always goes for more I’ve noticed!

I ended up redoing it with LEDS because I didn’t trust the batteries, but the vintage Sindy fridge I got actually still had a functional light that went on when you opened the door! They’re such well designed sets, and they’re very easy to customise if you want a more modern look.

Wow! that looks amazing! The new colour scheme really works well. Yeah, those drawer units usually go for big money, I think I was just lucky . I hope we get to see more of your kitchen soon!

Dal, you can see more of Christine’s amazing kitchen diorama here:

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t2751-max-and-juno-s-new-kitchen-diorama?highlight=Max++Juno

Stryker2011 wrote:Dal, you can see more of Christine’s amazing kitchen diorama here:

https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t2751-max-and-juno-s-new-kitchen-diorama?highlight=Max++Juno

Thanks for the link Mark! That's truly impressive!

The kitchen diorama looks very nice! Great work using the Sindy set.

Randam Hajile wrote:The kitchen diorama looks very nice! Great work using the Sindy set.
 

Cheers Ralf!

I will probably never ever put so much energy into creating a diorama like this, so I am all the more grateful for you guys and girls doing the work and sharing it! Beautiful!! Truly impressive.

Tabi is so cute.

Diana wrote:I will probably never ever put so much energy into creating a diorama like this, so I am all the more grateful for you guys and girls doing the work and sharing it! Beautiful!! Truly impressive.

Tabi is so cute.

We are happy to share! pleased you enjoyed it Diana

Really like your kitchen and the pics the beau du jour shot

The colours go well together and I just love that window and that the wall is not just one colour.
Really convincingly kitchen like … I guess you will keep adding accessories so that it will end up just like Lynkheart‘s which is amazing and fantastic and which I have repeatedly eyed enviously.

Illusion wrote:Really like your kitchen and the pics the beau du jour shot

The colours go well together and I just love that window and that the wall is not just one colour.
Really convincingly kitchen like … I guess you will keep adding accessories so that it will end up just like Lynkheart‘s which is amazing and fantastic and which I have repeatedly eyed enviously.

Thank you so much! Yeah, I am hoping to keep adding stuff. Lynkheart's is very much the benchmark

Saw your posts on Flickr, really impressive diorama, if I saw the pics out of context I would think it is a 1:1 kitchen!  Wish I had an area of my house I could put a diorama in, but hubby would have an aneurysm lol! But it looks like so much fun, I could get obsessed creating one.

Melancholia wrote:Saw your posts on Flickr, really impressive diorama, if I saw the pics out of context I would think it is a 1:1 kitchen!  Wish I had an area of my house I could put a diorama in, but hubby would have an aneurysm lol!

Thank you so much! The kitchen is a designed to come apart so it can be fat packed away

Both yours and Lynk's kitchens are amazing, I originally thought it was camera tricks to make it seem like the kitchen was to scale.

Theboo-bomb wrote:Both yours and Lynk's kitchens are amazing, I originally thought it was camera tricks to make it seem like the kitchen was to scale.

Thanks so much!