Additions to the Site, May 2025

I’ve been overdue in updating boxdioramas.com, but several fine examples seen at the MFCA Show in May 2025 and a bit of a break in work obligations has finally allowed me to get around to it. Added to existing galleries have been the latest by Pete Culos, “Between Promise and Despair;” my own recent boxes, “After the Battle” and “The Librarians;” new work by Ingvild Eiring and Andreas Rousounelis, and new images by Darryl Audette of his still-too-timely “Glory to Ukraine” diorama (the site’s co-founder has been having fun with some new photographic gear).

New gallery pages have been created for Ed Schaefer, Eric Wolf, Günther Hoffmann, T.g. Hamilton, Joe Pacak, JP Sligh, and Corné Spoon, all artists from whom we’d love to see and hear more.

Some new links to videos and handy web sites have been added to the Links page, and a lot of fine examples of work found in my own wanderings and via Facebook and other links provided by this site’s fan Tony Stencel have been added to the Various Artists and Newer Work page. These include a box by Bob Hallinger inspired by the old comic “The Haunted Tank” seen at MFCA, and box dioramas by Cepot Jadiraja, Heiner Sander, Marilyn Pride, a mysterious artist from the past, Peter Dillen, Theo Okhuijzen, Thorsten Hammer, and several artists who’ve shown their work on the Irish Model Soldier Society Modelling Page.

As always, I appreciate suggestions for boxes to add to the site and links that might be of use to box builders; boxdioramas.com is a labor of love, and hearing from fellow creators and appreciators makes it all worthwhile. Contact me at jimdero@jimdero.com. And don’t forget to listen to the Small Subjects podcast I co-host with the other co-founder of this site, Barry Biediger, where we talk about “big ideas in miniatures and modeling”—boxes included, of course! (You can find the blog featuring images of much of what we discuss on this site here.) Thanks, and happy modeling—Jim DeRogatis, May 27, 2025