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Monday, December 10, 2012 - 12:00 PM UTC
I have run across what looks to be a new company, Phoenix Diorama, and some interesting looking bases.
While surfing one of my favorite online stores, Lucky Model, I came across a new company to me, Phoenix Diorama. They have four great looking bases of street scenes set in Iraq. I wish I could tell you more about them, unfortunately at this moment, the only reference I can find for them is here at Lucky Model. If anyone has any information on these or the company, please let me know.

Update: These four will fit together to form one bigger diorama. And they are made of plastic.
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These are very interesting! I assume they're injection plastic? The idea of interlocking diorama bases is very nice too. Thanks for posting these!
DEC 10, 2012 - 02:33 PM
It's really cool that they can interlock together. When you say plastic, you mean injected or vacum-formed? Hisham
DEC 10, 2012 - 02:38 PM
If you go to the Phoenix Models website you can see much more about the kits and the breakdown of parts. http://www.phoenix-models.com/index.asp
DEC 10, 2012 - 02:51 PM
Yes, I just checked their site, but I can't tell for sure if the parts a cut-up vacum-form parts or injected.. but i guess the vacum-formed is the more probable considering the price. Hisham
DEC 10, 2012 - 02:54 PM
I was approached by them to carry them in my shop. Unfortunately they wanted me to purchase a quite substantial order, but refused to send me a sample kit to check it out to see what it was like. Considering their min. order was 40 kits of each SKU, and not interested in sending me a sample to see if it was going to be worth my time and investment, I passed on the offer. From what information I did get out of them, they are done in the same fashion as the Miniart buildings and diorama pieces are, with mostly vacu-form plastic. They do still look nice however, not subjects that Miniart are concentrating on, so definitely room on the market for them, I wish a deal could have been made, but not going to lay out the money for 150+ kits with out seeing a sample of the product.
DEC 10, 2012 - 04:02 PM
Guess I'm the only one who doesn't like the inter-locking idea? It just seems like an after-thought to me. Don't really care for the section with the center divide in it either. Just my thoughts though.
DEC 10, 2012 - 05:56 PM
Looks very interesting to me, so I ordered one with T-Walls to see how good is it.
DEC 10, 2012 - 07:08 PM
Their site also looks suspiciously like MiniArt´s in the layout. As the bits are prepared its hard to see what method they use, but some pieces have those little dimples, also like MiniArt kits.
DEC 10, 2012 - 07:25 PM
The set of four would look real good with some of the DEF and J's Work modern accessories. Using the EOD set from Black Dog could make for a very interesting diorama.
DEC 11, 2012 - 12:11 AM
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