Domestic Ruins

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been almost two years since Creeping nightmare at Blue-City Park. Life happened, Pnic and I moved, and the Extra Robots project was put to side. Until now?

The Blue-City park Diorama hasn’t left my display shelf and is still looking very good to my standards. Since almost the beginning of this journey, I had multiple diorama ideas, some like Blue-City Park being quite big and some being little one-off scenes, easier and faster to make. “Domestic Ruins” is one of those.

The plan was simple: let’s make a post-battle scene where one of our Extra Robots Jaeger lost the battle to a monster. Robot must be defeated, damaged and so must be the environment. I took inspiration from many epic Gundam Dioramas.

The build

Everything started with two things I had already with me: a clear plastic dome that was used to hold a lemon ice cream/sorbet and a building I had previously purchased for Blue-City Park but never used as the scale wasn’t quite right.

The cardboard disk was cut to size and I started digging through the plastic building to make room for my Robot.

I laid down some thick pieces of paper to create a bit of volume, which ended up not being visible at all, unfortunately. Using many little pieces of paper, I added some details, trying to give a more “destroyed city” look. I used my good old grounded-coffee + white glue to make dirt patches and called it a day.

In the meantime, I worked on the Robot itself. My plan was to have a gray and green city (I added some bushes, vines and trees, not shown here), so I went with a blue Robot to contrast as much with the scene as possible.

Of course, it has to be beaten down so I used my pliers on the robot at some places and used paint to mimic more damage. As you’ll see in the final results, I added even more damage later on.

Good old T-011 had seen better days.

Beauty shots

A quick side-project that took a week of sporadic work between my work hours.

Like the other project, it’s also published on extrarobots.wordpress.com, working as a central hub for this whole project.

Creeping nightmare at Blue-City Park

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Creeping nightmare at Blue-City Park is my biggest project to date.

Genesis

It all started back in 2022. Pnic and I were just finishing our kitbashathon project and were compulsively buying a 2006 series of Kinder-egg toys: the Extra Robots.

We had great plans in sight: making a cool-ass kaiju-robot diorama using those. We did a lot of planning, sketching and prepping maximize what we could achieve on a 4-days long stay of Pnic at my place.

Since this project is the first of (hopefully) a full series, we dedicated a little wordpress site to our crafting journey. As such, I won’t elaborate much here and link you to the full site at:

extrarobots.wordpress.com.

There you’ll find a full fledged tear-down of every step of the project, from the idea, prepping and of course, making.

Gallery

Close-ups