Erik Trauner
welcomes you to the site for the 1/72 diorama enthusiasts and wishes you a wonderful time browsing through small miniature worlds.

I was born in 1958 in Vienna, Austria. I have been a professional musician for over 25 years and I’m the leader & founder of the Mojo Blues Band.
       
At the age of 10 my father, a great model ship builder himself, motivated me to collect and paint little Airfix figurines.Then I started to convert them and created my first dioramas.   My hobby soon developed into a burning passion that lingers on until today.   Now looking back on over 35 years of modeling experience, I focused almost entirely on the scale 1/72. The favorite subjects for my dioramas are military historical scenes (not necessarily battles) as well as the realizations of ethnological subjects.  

My intense historical interests are reaching from ancient time until WWI and  my effort is to create dioramas that are picturesque compositions  telling stories and history.  Although the figurines have static character, one should try to inhale them charisma & life.  A friend once described my dioramas as 3-dimension paintings, which is exactly what I strive to achieve.

The glory and hard fought final climax of each diorama project is the photographic documentary that makes our hobby move once again into another great dimension.

some impressions of the opening party of the exhibition at Fernwärme Wien
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0yuZBJtNa4