Aurélien's City Dioramas

[eant]

The designer Aurélien generously made several city dioramas available on the French-language site Le Forum En Papier (www.maquettes-papier.net)

I found five dioramas there: New York City, London, Dubai, Las Vegas, and a combo of San Francisco and Los Angeles.

These are very entertaining, whimsical dioramas. The goal seems to be to present landmarks in pleasing manner, without worrying too much about scale and location. For example. the SF+LA diorama shows the Golden Gate Bridge going between SF and LA.

A big thanks as well to PaperMau's blog, which pointed me toward these treasures.

[eant]

Here are some pictures of my build of Aurélien's New York City diorama. I sized the model for a 3 x 4.5 inch base.

[Viator]

Wooow! I love such themes!
I often dreamt ofcreating a series of exactly this kind of dioramas, presenting the development of my part of the town or city since the first road and house up to now, say, every 50 years.
Thanks for sharing!

[Viator]

Originally Posted by eant

The designer Aurélien generously made several city dioramas available on the French-language site Le Forum En Papier (www.maquettes-papier.net)
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I found this forum and tried to register there. They allow the new member to choose "British English" as an optional language and then the language of the headers and prompts changes to English if selected, but the Captcha ("I am not a robot" confirmation) wasn't translated and it is still in French, and it is textual, not graphical (!!!), so I wasn't able to pass the test... :/

[John Wagenseil]

Viator, and any one else who would like to download Aurélien's archtectural paper models.
You can spend a few years learning to read French, or go to the link below, and scroll down it looking for his posts.
Architecture - Le forum en papier
It is not a sophisticated search method, but it seems to work, and takes less time than learning how to read and write French in order to get past the Captcha.


(Aurélien created a lot of paper models, and there are many models by other creators that can be accessed from this web page. Bonne chasse!)

[eant]

Here are some pictures of my build of Aurélien's SF+LA Diorama. I sized this for a 2 x 4.5 inch base

[Don Boose]

Great and surprising city dioramas!

Don

[Viator]

Pretty simple but charming!
And many thanks for your clarifications.

[eant]

To my chagrin, I realized that in the SF+LA diorama I had installed the elevator shafts in the Transamerica Pyramid upside down. I cut them off and re-glued. Here are a couple of pictures of the correction.

[eant]

This is a sixth diorama that Aurélien made available. Most of these buildings are in the La Défense district of Paris. The diorama includes the very interesting "Grand Arch" building. I sized this for a 2 x 2.5 inch base. A picture of my build is below.