If I remember, in 1994 Tamiya released a new set of 1/35 dinosaur models, which included apart from the “creature” itself some plastic stand with cast relief. The stands connected making up some kind of a diorama.

Dinosaurs looked like from “cartoons” or rather from “movies”, the stands were quite primitive, but brought together it all looked quite good. The apotheosis of these sets was the Brachiosaurus Diorama Set, which was almost half-meter high. After I saw it I couldn’t resist to collect all models of this series what I successfully did about 10 years ago. And as it usually happens, all these boxes, some of them collected partially, found themselves on the shelves until some time.

Finally, the time came when I got down to realize my dream. Right here I would like to note that “Bank Holiday” is not a paleontological diorama in the strict sense of the word. This is more of an installation which shows beautiful animals in a nice “interior”.

All greenery on the diorama is hand-made; almost all way through we used natural materials (moss, bark, branches and roots of the plants), ordinary paper, tracing paper, wire, polyester resin for water. The only exception is the fern which is made of photoetched kit produced by British 4D Modelling.

The production team are Vladimir Ulyanov, Sergey Skreblov and myself, your humble servant. The photo-shooting was done by our “Mr. Canon”, Oleg Mironov. We’ll be happy to hear your feedback and comments.