Making a Book Nook Diorama of an Abandoned Mental Hospital
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In this video I walk through how I made this book nook diorama of an abandoned mental hospital patient ward. Stay tuned to the end to see the finished diorama!
This is the first book nook I’ve made and it was a little different from my other dioramas. I decided to wire in a led light with a battery to shine through the window and illuminate the hallway. Usually I leave room to add my own lighting for when I film and photograph my finished pieces but I really wanted it to be an all-in-one product.
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Пікірлер: 221
This is the most intense, creepy book nook video I've ever seen. Tremendous.
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Haha thanks, that’s great feedback! Glad you enjoyed it!
Retired mental health nurse here, we have many abandoned buildings on our grounds & this is a true representation reminding me of all those lost souls I cared for. I’m also a lover of book books so of course I subscribed! ♥️ Amazing talent!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
I’m so glad to hear that! I was a big part in making a short documentary film about an abandoned mental hospital, and now with these dioramas, I really want to convey some of that history. Appreciate your kind words and glad to have you!
I’m not just a subscriber. I’m a real fan! Have you had your art exhibited in any form of museum other than KZread? It is so deserving!❤
@AbandonedMiniatures
11 ай бұрын
I just had an exhibit in the Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures in Tuscon Arizona!
God bless and always guide you brother. Very beautiful.
Looks really spooky, it would sit nicely in the horror section of books.
very intriguing, and beautifully detailed.👍👍👍
I love miniatures depicting urban decay, and this is a stunning example! Subbed so I can see more! :D
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Glad you found the channel, thank you!
Amazing!! I grew up doing dioramas for warhammer 40,000 and fantasy. This has renewed that spark. Looking forward to making a book nook diorama
"The town of light" (Volterra asylum) - absolutly great work!
Great build but the rust effect is just awesome =)
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! I love doing rust effects.
You're talent personified, man! Wow!
Memorable _easter egg_ for those thumbing through your home library
I would love to see your take on a haunted location. My first thought was like a skeleton underneath the floorboards
Im in awe of your rusty door
underrated channel ...Love the builds!
It looks so real, it wouldn't be a wonder if sometimes little ghosts appears inside👻🥴😵👻
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Haha thank you!
Wonderfull painting of the door. I love the rust and the blue color. I painted with another technique a few years ago, but yours is really beautiful! Congratulations. Big hug from Brazil.
i would ve bent one of the doors as an escape... to show more from the inside!
This is awesome man... now I hate having only ebooks...
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Haha thanks! Books do take up a lot of space though.
This is AWESOME!!! Wooooow!!! Congratulations!!!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!! Glad you liked it.
Amazing work and then saw the Ayn Rand books and subscribed.
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
I loved the overall feel of the video, especially the atmospheric music feel. Incredible talent all the way around.
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! So glad you like it!
Absolutely stunning! Amazing attention to detail and I've learned so much. Thank you.
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it! I hope you enjoy my future videos.
I used to do abandoned photography for years.. would love to get back into it. butttt I was curious if you sell your booknooks? so amazing. SO glad i came across your channel. truly awesome!
@AbandonedMiniatures
10 ай бұрын
Hey! Send me an email at abandonedminiatures@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram and we can talk about the book nooks!
It feels like I should have paid to watch this you're work is just insane from the dust and sand to the amount of detail to the rust and walls it takes some really hard thinking to do this kinda stuff and I applaud you for it
This is awesome man! Back in my early 20s I used to explore abandoned mental institutions all the time. This a great idea for a booknook and you nailed it!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you liked it, I haven’t explored lately either but I hope making these dioramas recreate it a little bit.
The final effect is awesome, with people chattering and the light and the height of the video camera, every thing's perfect. Bravo !
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that!
Dude!!!!! That is wicked cool
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
Looks out of a TWD episode. Love it.
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Haha thanks!
This was my favorite. No wait, I say that to myself after each one. lol . Love it!
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Haha thank you!
You do such incredible work. I just found your channel and binge watching all your videos.
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
So glad you’re here!
Beautiful work! I stumbled upon your channel today and I'm loving the content. You have combined two of my favorite things... urban exploring and model making.
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome! Glad you found me and that you’re enjoying it. I appreciate the kind words, thank you!!
Badass as always. What would've been sick with this project was if you printed a human or a creature figure and glued them just around the bend. So when the light was on or strobing it'd give the silhouette of the model. I have a very artistic background, so many ideas come to mind of scenes and whatnot. And the experience of paints and airbrushing. But I really have no idea where to begin making art remotely like this
Wow! New subscriber! Those doors-the rust is outstanding. Thank you!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome, glad to have you! I appreciate it!
you are making the most uncanny Dioramas out there! The level of detail let me forget that it's only a miniature and not a real live sized object
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
So glad they are having that effect!
Fantastic work , very decayed and creepy . I was going to make a Session 9 diorama , went searching for a way to make the wheelchair and found your video . You nailed the tone of the movie and poster perfectly . Off to look at your earlier videos .
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you found my channel. I did not notice how similar it was to Session 9’s poster haha.
@starcat58
Жыл бұрын
@@AbandonedMiniatures YES!! I was going to suggest, with your amazing skills, a "Session 9" (the film) build. Then I saw this book nook= Incredible. But would love to see a full size build! The film was shot entirely in an actual abandoned Asylum. You should check out "Session 9".
@starcat58
Жыл бұрын
@@AbandonedMiniatures en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_9
@starcat58
Жыл бұрын
@@AbandonedMiniatures Production took place on location at the Danvers State Mental Hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts.
@starcat58
Жыл бұрын
@@AbandonedMiniatures en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danvers_State_Hospital
Great work, you're a foamboard master haha.
Nice one, different and interesting. Thanks.
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Omg !!!!! Amazing. Good job!!!!!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
Oh wow! Creepy and awesome!
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
No words... 🤍🤍🤍 such a great work New Subscriber
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad to have you!!
Great build and I loved the techniques! Esp using the liquid latex to make it look like the paint was peeling👍
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! Appreciate you sharing your techniques as well!
I had no idea what these were called, I've been trying to find a lovecraft one.....hopefully now I'll have more luck knowing what they are called. Thank you!
This is the most mesmerizing book nook diy I have seen! Wow!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow. How do you not have more subs, likes ect? This is amazing. I love it. 🖤
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! I appreciate it!
I’m hoping you’ve approached a few galleries to show your pieces(?) They’re truly impressive!
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Not yet! Thanks!
Phenomenal build 👍🏾
you do some amazing work.
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Wow so glad I found your channel! This scene is awesome! I'd hate to be sitting in that wheelchair when that iron door closed in on me! So realistic!
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
The real place gave me that feeling. Thank you!
Absolutely brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nicely executed once again! This reminds me of my visit to Ellis Island. If you haven't already, take a look at some of the photos of the main building. They have a sanitarium there with some very vintage plumbing fixtures there that are one of a kind creep level 12. Check it out!
You're the best.
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Haha thank you!
Excellent work, great talent to represent these types of places so faithfully....I love it!!! Thanks for showing how you do it.👋
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that! Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a work of art!!!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that!!
Love this! TY 😊
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
This was so dope. I might also need to invest in a 3D printer the gates and the wheelchair look so good. Everything did really. You are very talented.
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! My 3D printer has come in handy a lot.
This is incredible...earned you a sub and a like mate!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, so glad to have you here!
Very cool 👍🏽
This looks so good!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Love it!!!
Incredible!
Incredible!!! You did a great job with this nook!
Extremely well done! Has a lot of atmosphere. Sandwiching it between Poe and Stephen King, brilliant! You've just gained a subscriber.
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Really appreciate that! Happy to have you!
Great job!
Amazing
That is so awsome 😍
Really fantastic 😮
You popped up in my recommendations today and I couldn't have been happier. By the time you got to the rust effect I was already subscribed. I love this take on the book nook, thank you !
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thanks so much, glad to have you!
I had to subscribe to see what's next. Awesome work 😊
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! Glad to have you!
Love your voice 😍 and I love this channel
That was the Creepiest modeling tutorial I've ever seen... Quality!😁👍👍👍
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!! I must have done something correct then 😆
That's so cool! I'd love to have one of these on my shelves. 📗📒📘📚❤
very nice and well done.
This is so brilliant!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
Amazing!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Outstanding work
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Wow! What attention to detail. Love it.
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I've watched all your videos and boy am I impressed.
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!
Now this is one awesome booknook. So detailed. :}
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
Realmente me encanta el resultado final... ❤️ :3
So much insanity. Awesome work as always. So glad I found you 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Question ❓❓❓ Where's the patient?
That's cool
fantastic job! Just joined today!
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thanks so much, glad you’re here!
Wow x
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Keep it up brother 😘😍😁
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
Have you considered using a painters palette knife to add your grout? You will be able to apply it easier and therefore have less to remove : less waste, less effort
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
I have but haven’t gotten around to buying one yet!
@wonderwend1
2 жыл бұрын
@@AbandonedMiniatures * wags finger * Well get it on your shopping list asap 😉
Just subscribed you are very talented
I love your work, specialy before sleep, its so calm And, you know you look like christian bale? 😁
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Haha yes I have been told that a few times.
Very creepy. I love it 👍🏼
I love what you do and I have used foam core to make a stressed concrete wall for my model railway and to mount brick paper to. The problem I have had is warping caused by I believe the moisture in the glue. How do you deal with warping? Many thanks
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
I haven’t had a problem with warping, but I generally glue it down to a solid piece of MDF board. I also leave the paper on one side of the foam core.
Wow, very well done. Love it. Can you tell me what those silver weight things with holes in them are and maybe where I can purchase them. You used them to hold the walls up. Thank you.
@AbandonedMiniatures
Жыл бұрын
They are called 123 blocks and you can get them on Amazon!
wow
Awesome + darkest vibe, cool. did you consider lying the chair on its side?
LOVE your work! Fantastic! Would you ever consider doing a more detailed, class- like video?
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe in the future but my longer videos don’t usually do as well.
Your work is absolutely stunning! I love it. Is it available for purchase?
Top❤
Do you use the same scale for each diorama? A few of them look to be around 1/18 scale. Brilliant and informative. Keep them coming.
@AbandonedMiniatures
2 жыл бұрын
Usually around there, I’ve been doing some 1:12 lately too.
What fluid is it that you sprinkle on the sand? Love your work 👏👏👏
Do you sell your completed miniatures? They're amazing! 🖤
super cool cuz love it..i dont know whats ur plan for the futur but would be cool to make a full abandon hospital u know what i mean
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Pascal! Yeah I have thought about that.. would take a long time haha but maybe I will one day.
@lleelloolevasseur3717
3 жыл бұрын
@@AbandonedMiniatures like room by room but u can stack them at the end to make one big mansion llooll but one piece like u just made how long did it took u
@AbandonedMiniatures
3 жыл бұрын
I’m not sure how many hours but it takes a while. I usually work on two at a time so I go back and forth.