Ready Made Diorama: Magical Stone Gate

This is a model of a pair of upright standing stones, topped with a horizontal lintel stone, forming a gate. They are accompanied by two other stones, one long since fallen and broken and overgrow by a tree, the other toppled and leaning against one of the upright stones. The tree that has overgrown the fallen stone is bent and twisted from wind and age; of a second tree there is only a weathered stump left. While the scene is purely fictional, the intention is for it to look like a remnant from a once greater construction resembling Stonehenge in the UK.

The model consists of four separate files: the base with the fallen stone and the stump, the tree, the stone gate, the leaning stone. This is for easier printing in smaller printers, but most of all for easier painting and enhancing it to make it into a diorama. There are indentations in the base to show where the separate parts are to be placed and glued.

All parts are highly textured, so that in order to create a nice desktop diorama you only have to paint the parts accordingly. Of course you can enhance the scenery by adding twigs and foliage to the tree, moss to the stones and sand and pebbles to the ground, but there is no real need to do this. My Ready Made Diorama-series is for users who do not want to have to mess around with additional diorama materials to create an enchanting little scenery.

The Magical Stone Gate can very well be incorporated into a model train landscape as a fascinating extra that can not be found among the usual model train sceneries. It can also serve as a part of a desktop game or be built into a bigger diorama of your own design.

The model was sculpted with Nomad Sculpt on my iPad. The files provided are stl-files. The base of the model has a diameter of roughly 120 mm, making it possible to be placed under one of the costumary glas dome sizes. Of course it is up to you to change the size according to your own wishes.

Diameter: 120 mm.
Print model not hollowed out due to its size.
No supports provided, as it is generally better to add the supports according to the specifications of your own printer.
Intended as a resin print, may loose most of its details when printed in a filament printer.

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