Fembruary 2021 Challenge REVEAL

Well… It’s done.

I feel a great sense of achievement but at the same time I feel a little sad or maybe that’s a little dramatic, lets say a bit flat now it’s all done and dusted.

For those of you not sure what this is all about let me explain. Fembruary is a challenge that Alex from Leadballoony https://leadballoony.com/ has put out each year since 2018. It’s basically a celebration of FEMALE MINIATURES!

I’ve taken part each year. 1. Well it’s a great idea. 2. I have three daughters, a wife, a Mother and two sisters so I’ve been surrounded by females all my life haha.

This years submission, I’ve called “The Ark – Treehouse”, is the third and final installment to a Diorama Trilogy that tells, a visual, story of my three girls (Kyralee, Sianne and Willow) in a Zombie Apocalypse world.

In the first diorama I showed the girls battling zombies and holding their ground atop a VW Beetle.

The second diorama was set about ten years after the first and shows my three girls in a wasteland with zombies being held in a prison pit for scientific experiments.

Both were good fun to do and I am quite proud of them but for the final part of the trilogy I wanted to do two things.

1. Go BIGGER!

2. Make the zombie apoc world seem a whole lot more peaceful.

It’s been such an incredible journey, again I know that sounds a little dramatic haha but it really has been a whole lot of fun and it’s also been quite the learning curve. Many of you have been such a big help too which I have really, REALLY appreciated. I may not have gone with every idea but it certainly always gave me food for thought and often lead me to thinking completely different about something to what I’d originally planned.

So for this final installment (set about eight years after diorama number 2) we see my three girls at ease, at peace, in their treehouse. Being a treehouse it says that they’re still playing it safe, just in case, but at the same time they spend a lot of time on the ground too. They even keep animals and have a small workshop. That’s pretty relaxed if you ask me. The big difference with this Dio is that I’ve also included a model/figure to represent me and also one to represent my wife. Rest assured, my wife is much prettier than the model representing her on this diorama haha. She might read this one day haha.

So, lets take a look at “The Ark – Treehouse” but be warned LOTS OF PHOTOS TO BE SEEN HAHAHA

Never used leaves before and I’m really pleased with how they look. They were fun to do as well.

Note the winch on the left. Kind of had to have one. I made it from bazookas hehe.

Meet Kyralee, my eldest. She loves music and prefers to play the ukulele (That’s actually the first thing she said when she saw this mini haha). The Union Jack is freehand but not amazing haha. You get the idea though I guess.

The Peace Symbol is freehand too and I think I did much better with this.

I think this model represents my eldest really well. Shes 17 at the moment and just sort of finding herself. I know that sounds a bit cliché but it’s a very real thing. Took me many, many years to find out what I wanted in life.

Some supplies. The bags are actually green stuff and you can still see my fingerprint hahaha. Whoops. Ah well, looks a bit like hessian. I bloody love the weathered timber look I achieved.

Bit blurry but I just wanted to show off the antennae that I made haha. Can you see it? It was a fiddly bastard and before you ask NO I don’t have a TV in the Treehouse but I just wanted to add an antennae.

Meet Sianne. She’s always been a bit nutty this kid and very much takes after her Dad with that and with her warped sense of humour. I think this model works well for her because it’s a little edgy. It (she) has a bit of attitude or something.

There’s that Winch/Crane again.

This model was originally meant to be riding a Quad bike hence the pose haha but I felt it worked as someone in the lookout tower too.

It was hard to photograph Sianne but I really like this shot.

A legless but happy man by the looks of things.

So that’s the treehouse and top section of the diorama. Lets take a look at the base now.

The wind caught the rope ladder in this shot.

Meet the wife. Please note that the real life wife did laugh when she saw this model haha so I’m not in trouble at all.

I purposely shaped and positioned her arms to be able to hold a bucket and some food. I added the food to the bucket and her hand too.

The last character to meet is my youngest daughter, my button, my bubble, my little Willow.

Willow is up for anything so it made sense that she’d be the mechanic/handy girl hehe.

Note the winch hook in the upper right corner. Also, you can just make out and M-60 machine gun leaning up against the bench in the background haha.

So there you go guys a nice, safe treehouse free from zombies…

OR IS IT???????????????????????????????????????????????

It wouldn’t be an IRO piece without a little something extra haha

I will leave you with some shots of the whole diorama. As you’ll see it’s balanced on the railing of my own decking which is approximately four metres high off the ground. Needless to say my heart was in my throat the whole time I was taking photos BUT it was worth it to capture the best shots I could.

I hope you’ve enjoyed the WIP posts and of course the big reveal.

I am really pleased with the whole thing. Of course, as always, I can see where I could have done things better but learning is part of the fun too.

I’m off to put my feet up and have a few glasses of Spiced Rum and watch a wild west documentary.

My next little project will be a Lego one of all things because I feel I need to cleanse my palette before I get stuck into the CoffinWood Project.

Cheers

IRO

OH and for those of you wondering how I lost the leg??? I played strip poker with some zombies and they took the whole thing a little too literally.