Erik Trauner · Vienna, Austria
Miniatures in 1/72
Erik Trauner welcomes you to the site for the 1/72 diorama enthusiasts and wishes you a wonderful time browsing small miniature worlds!
Featured diorama
Woodland Indians 1
A friend once described my dioramas as 3-dimensional paintings, which is exactly what I strive to achieve.
My intense historical interests reach from ancient times until WWI. The effort is always the same: to create picturesque compositions that tell stories and history.
Although the figurines have a static character, I try to inhale charisma and life into them – military-historical scenes, not necessarily battles, as well as ethnological subjects.
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Small worlds, told in miniature
From Woodland Indians and the Zulu War to Ancient Egypt and the life of the Inuit – each diorama is a scene with its own history, built almost entirely in 1/72 scale.
About me
Four decades of small scale
I was born in 1958 in Vienna, Austria. I have been a professional musician for over 35 years and I’m the leader and founder of the Mojo Blues Band.
At the age of 10 my father, a great model ship builder himself, encouraged 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.
- Born 1958in Vienna, Austria
- Since age 10collecting & converting figurines
- Scale 1/72almost exclusively
- Ancient – WWIhistorical focus
Please be aware that most of the dioramas shown here were built many, many years ago – my level of figurine painting was not so exciting back then.
More about ErikWorking bench
Currently on the bench: Arab Basar
Slow but sho’! Distracted by a lot of other projects, I have been working on my latest diorama for four years now – it will take about 80 figurines to bring the bazaar to life.
Tips & Tricks
How it is made
Learning by doing – but every modeller grows through the exchange with others. A few of the techniques I use most often, step by step.
Styrofoam Walls
I use stencels to print stone texture into the styrofoam. They are made of plastic or metal profiles. For…
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Water in dioramas
The methods and materials used to replicate water in modeling are as diverse as the shapes and forms nature…
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Wasser im Diorama
Die vielen verschiedenen Arten und Formen in der uns die Natur dieses Element präsentiert erfordern auch im…
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Conversion 1
How to make a morion helmet for a spanish conquistador. the basic figurines are from the Esci barbarian and…
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Conversion 2
I used a Revell WW2 russian infantry figurine to convert it into an arab civilan. I used Magic Sculp putty…
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Nikolai
My own range of 1/72 figurines
About ten years ago I started creating my own range of 1/72 figurines and diorama accessories. All sets are resin casts and are sold unpainted.
For orders, pricelists and further information about NIKOLAI products please contact my partner Michael Cremerius at Germania Figuren.
Part of a great community
The motto is „learning by doing“, but no modeller grows without the exchange with others. The list of shops, forums and galleries that keep inspiring me is long – and worth a visit.