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How to Use Schleich Fantasy Miniatures Figurines in Fairytale Dioramas

Creating a fairytale diorama can be fun and easy, especially when you populate it with fantasy miniatures. Because it’s a fairytale, the setting and characters are limited only by your imagination.

The key to creating a truly awesome diorama is finding the right fantasy miniatures. The quality and detail of the figurines help take the diorama to a higher level. Brands like Safari LTD and Schleich figurines are available with a variety of fairytale characters including knights, elves, fairies, dinosaurs and dragons. If you can’t get excited about a fairytale diorama with this cast of characters you should probably find something else to make.

With such a wide variety of figurines to choose from, the best place to start is with the concept for your diorama. Will it be an action scene: a knight battles a dragon to save a princess, or elves fight prehistoric dinosaurs; or a landscape, where elves live peacefully with unicorns, or jesters perform for the royal family?

These are among the possibilities you can create using Safari and Schleich figurines. There are more than 50 fantasy miniatures in the Schleich knights series, more than 20 in the elf series, and plenty of animals and accessories to round out your fairytale diorama.

Once you’ve decided what your diorama will look like, you can start to create it. Two things you need to know are the size of the fantasy miniatures and how many of them you’ll be using. This determines what size your diorama will need to be to house everything you want to include in it.

Will everything fit inside a shoe box, two shoeboxes, or even bigger than that? Will your diorama need to be horizontal or vertical? If you’ll be featuring flying dragons, for instance, a vertical format would work best to give you the height a dragon needs to fly. If you’re staging knights in a tournament, you’ll have several knights, horses, tents, and bystanders. This would work well in a horizontal format.

You can use colored construction paper to create background features like ground and sky, but will you also create things like houses and trees out of paper or use miniatures for them as well? Keep in mind the colors in your miniature figurines when creating your backdrop: too much of the same color and they may blend into the background.

Fantasy miniatures are not limited merely to people and creatures: Safari and Schleich figurines also make miniature trees, castles, animals, and just about everything else you need to make your diorama exactly how you pictured it.

Now that you’ve done all the preparation work, collected your figurines, and made whatever parts and pieces you’re going to create yourself, it’s time to put your diorama together, and bring your fairytale to life.

Start with the backdrop, gluing your sky, ground, and middle-ground onto your box. Don’t forget the sides and top of the box: although you might not see them when you look directly into the diorama, from other viewpoints they will be noticeable.

Place your fantasy miniatures into your scene, starting from the back and moving forward. If you want your diorama to be permanent, you can glue your miniatures in place, using rubber cement (so they can be repositioned). Don’t do this, however, until you’ve got everything positioned just where you want it; repeatedly pulling up your figures could rip or tear the paper.

That’s how easy it is to create a fairytale diorama using fantasy miniatures with Safari or Schleich figurines. With all the figurines there are choose from, you can create several dioramas, and move your miniatures from one to another.

About the Author

Joe Kanooga is a father of two kids, a successful business owner and the author of numerous articles about Schleich figurines. Click here to download our free fantasy miniatures guidebook filled with helpful tips, ideas and information.

Farrier trimmed too much!?

Hey all,
Have you ever dealt with a farrier taking too much off in a trim.
I like to keep horses out all the time, paddock/pasture. I also, because they aren't stalled or on concrete all day, don't use shoes unless needed to work on a specific problem. Well I guess the farrier was in a hurry and trimmed a horse too short, now he's hobbling around! Other than traditional shoes and bute as a solution have any of you dealt with this?
Ideas for encouraging the hardening and growth of the hoof and sole? i.e. solutions to a bruised sole?
Any experience with glue on rubber/plastic shoes? Epona shoes?

Easy boots or boa boots are the best way to go. Koppertox will help toughen the sole and can guide the way to a bruise or an abscess from being trimmed to short.

Generally they will toughen up in about a week. Bute would be fine just enough to take the edge off. Like one gram per day.

I would ask your farrier not to trim them so short after this. Most of the time people have the opposite problem with farriers leaving them way to long.

You can also soak the feet in cold water. Standing them in a mud puddle so all fours are in the water with help soothe the pain a bit.

I have used the Easy boots and have left them on for 2 weeks at a time with a foot injury to the sole like a bruise. I checked the boots everyday to see that they were not rubbing wrong and that no pebbles has gotten in the boots to further irritate the foot.

You can grease the foot down with corn oil, fill the easy boot with latex caulking and place the foot in the boot and let the horse stand until the caulking is hardened or cured. The caulking will serve as a barrier to dirt and rocks and will conform to the shape to the hoof for comfort.

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