Usually a diorama is not intended for actually playing out the battle, it’s more like a picture taken in 3D showing a certain moment of the battle in question, a detailed study of uniforms and terrain, but not a wargame. You have to buy the figures, paint them, arrange them, create terrain (even explosions!), you need some big table (or better an entire room) to show the beauty of it all and it’s simply not for everyone.
I really like to look at dioramas and I love the dedication these guys put into their hobby – it’s a really time-consuming hobby and quite expensive. That’s sort of the adult version of the battles we all did as kids with toy soldiers in our room, where the magic of imagination changed the floor into something completely different… soldiers marching off to war, while we were the commander.
I suppose every wargamer is aware of the existence of a certain subgenre within our hobby which is mainly about portraying battles with little tin or plastic soldiers in so-called dioramas.
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