Additions to the site, June 2022

UPDATES TO THE SITE, JUNE 9, 2022

First up: The founders of this site have all been busy, and you can see Jim DeRo’s newest boxes, “Seven Steps” and “Night Raid, 1945,” on his artist’s gallery page; Barry Biediger’s latest, “Beyond the Seventh Moon,” on his page, and Darryl Audette’s “Glory to Ukraine” in his gallery, each with links to additional views and notes on their construction. Jim and Barry both won gold medals at the MFCA 2022 show for their boxes (and Barry was further honored by being named a Grand Master), and several other boxes were also on display at that fantastic show, including Dennis Levy’s latest, “Unconscious Distortion,” a tribute to René Magritte, which can be seen on his page; Joe Berton’s “Van Gogh’s Bedroom,” with a new lighting scheme since it was first seen at MMSI 2021 (it claimed a gold at MFCA as well); the first of what we hope will be many boxes by Peter Culos, “Theatre of Spoil and Destruction” (he’s got several others planned already, so we’ve added his own gallery page); a box called “The Plague” by Bob Huryk, which can be seen on the Various Artists page, and a very promising box-in-progress by Michael Scarborough, “The Philosopher’s Study,” which we’ve added to his gallery page (perhaps prematurely, but it sure is beautiful!). Richard Mason has another fantastic airplane box added to his gallery page, with an accompanying step-by-step overview, and we’ve created a gallery page for Gareth McGorman, who has yet to build a box, though he rightly claims his photography set-pieces as “box-adjacent.” We added another new gallery page for Hervé Dagès, a French artist who is a retired Brigadier General of the French National Gendarmerie and a graduate of the Special Military Academy of Saint Cyr created by Napoleon in 1802 (not surprisingly, he is fascinated with the First Empire); in addition to sharing his debut box, he compiled a great step-by-step article. Also added to the Various Artists page of recent work are two finds from Facebook (with very little known about either artist); six examples of the work of Jean Diorama, a great diorama artist who’s tackled a few pseudo-boxes (and who was recently featured on an episode of the Sprue Cutters Union podcast), and some of the work of Andy Acres, a London-based modeler who specializes in small eerie scenes in boxes, and who we first became aware of through this article, while Mike Pierce submitted two photos of a unique Civil War diorama in an ammunition box at the Tennessee Welcome Visitor Center, which we’ve added to the Various Artists, Older Work page. Finally, we’ve added a couple of new pieces linked from the Feature Articles page, including a useful glossary of electronic terms submitted by Noah and Selena McCoy, a piece on the 1979 box “Beyond Tourcoing” by Geoff Barnes, a new photo in the article about the Tonka box-diorama-in-a-box kits, and, if you scroll to the bottom of the article about the restoration of Shep Paine’s classic “Gun Deck of the HMS Victory” box, an update about the latest round of repairs Jim made in May 2022 to keep that classic ship-shape. Thanks as always for visiting the site and clicking around!