Ted Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Not really a diorama, but I couldn't think of another place to post this. It's a project I've wanted to do for a long time. My wife collects paper globes for her own creative projects and she generously gave me one of them. Just a cheap old globe like most of us had as kids, with the mountains textured on the surface and gaps between all the paper strips. I removed the cheap ugly stand and will eventually make something new out of wood and brass. I spent hours sanding, filling, priming, and sanding to smooth it all. Then sprayed some vague outlines of Middle Earth, Valinor, and the oceans with Vallejo mixes. Then I started brush painting the outlines of the continents. It was a bit hard to reproduce the 2D map on a globe, Mercator projection, amIright🙄 I'm using a few maps from various books, including the Tolkien scrapbook and the old MERP game for some of the places that weren't mapped out in the original books. I might do a ghost outline of Beleriand but not sure yet. 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psdavidson Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 That's an unusual project, watching with interest /P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallBlondJohn Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Great idea - Surprised nobody has done a commercial one. I guess the high-tec way would be to figure out how to convert the projections and apply them. But Valinor should be separate somehow... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted February 28, 2022 Author Share Posted February 28, 2022 27 minutes ago, TallBlondJohn said: But Valinor should be separate somehow... It should be indeed, I think I'll make the ocean around it cloudy or foggy, and maybe make the land mass a bit ghostly. Or should it be more neon? It will be fun to play with ideas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigsty Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Good luck fitting Valinor and Beleriand onto a globe! The one was taken out of the mortal world altogether when the world was made round at the end of the Second Age, and the other was smashed to bits in the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age. Both belong firmly in the flat version of Arda. All the same, now that I know there was an Atlas of Middle-Earth, I'll watch this with interest. (Guess who's just finished The Silmarillion for the nth time?) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted February 28, 2022 Author Share Posted February 28, 2022 46 minutes ago, pigsty said: Both belong firmly in the flat version of Arda. Maybe that was just a conspiracy theory invented by disenfranchised Noldor 🤓 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Good to see you back Ted, and what an interesting project! I was going to crack a flat earth joke, but that's already been done. Be interesting to see how this works out. Maybe you could do it in the style of an old fashioned globe and add Tolkien like writing/runes ? Certainly one of the most different projects I have seen on here! cheers T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted March 3, 2022 Author Share Posted March 3, 2022 On 3/2/2022 at 7:18 AM, Troy Smith said: Good to see you back Ted, and what an interesting project! I was going to crack a flat earth joke, but that's already been done. Be interesting to see how this works out. Maybe you could do it in the style of an old fashioned globe and add Tolkien like writing/runes ? Certainly one of the most different projects I have seen on here! cheers T Thanks Troy, That's the plan, to make the globe look old fashioned using oil paints and glazes. And I've downloaded a Middle Earth font for printing decals for the place names. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom216 Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Pretty cool! Any progresso? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandsaw Steve Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 Can’t be an accurate Middle-Earth globe. No sign of New Zealand! 😄 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Posted January 31, 2023 Author Share Posted January 31, 2023 On 1/27/2023 at 3:53 PM, Thom216 said: Pretty cool! Any progresso? I wish, it's one of the fun projects waiting on a long list of house renovations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom216 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 14 hours ago, Ted said: I wish, it's one of the fun projects waiting on a long list of house renovations. Yeah, the house must come first. You'll have to put the finished globe somewhere.😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERK Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Wish someone would have a go at a Hollow Earth interpretation, that would be so cool. Erk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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