The Tiny Absurdist
Miniatures and Dioramas of the Delightfully Ridiculous
Welcome to a world where things are small, slightly strange, and made with far too much attention to detail.
I’m Cate - a miniature artist creating handcrafted dioramas, custom figures, and tiny versions of real people and things. From surreal scenes to more personal pieces everything here is built by hand, one detail at a time.
Dioramas • Tiny Pets • Hobby Storage
Models
Marder Vs Munchers
A post-apocalyptic diorama reimagining a "Marder I" as a scavenged survival vehicle, pushing through a zombie-infested city overrun with rats.
1:35 Scale
2,500 Hours of the Same Four Walls
A 1:24 scale recreation of my home study, built during lockdown as a way of turning a far too familiar space into something worth looking at again.
Wrong Spawn Point
A 1:148 scale castle diorama inspired by the game "Chivalry 2", capturing the moment a few unlucky blue team knights appear in entirely the wrong place.
Glasses On – Glasses Off
A miniature diorama inspired by the movie "They Live", recreating the moment where everything looks normal, until it doesn’t. Designed on a rotating base so the scene shifts between what’s shown and what’s actually there.
Gollum - An Experiment in Figure Painting and Light
A hand-painted resin figure of Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, created as my first experiment with figure painting and airbrushing.
Products
DropStack
See every colour, Use Half the Space
DropStack is a modular vertical paint storage system built for hobby painters who need fast colour access without sacrificing desk space.
Custom Pet Miniatures
Turn your dog or cat into
a tiny keepsake
Using your photographs as reference, I create custom miniature pets inspired by the real thing. Each piece is digitally modelled, printed and hand painted to capture the colours, markings and personality that make your pet unique.