Kayla's diorama entry

Continuing on with our tour of the 2026 BreyerFest Diorama Contest entries, here's a really neat - and dramatic - scene from Kayla Blaine. 

She writes: Mine is called “Hoof Helly Aa”.

It is based on Up Helly Aa, which is a traditional fire festival held each winter in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. Up Helly As celebrates Shetland’s Norse and Viking heritage with torchlit processions, participants dressed as Vikings, music, and the dramatic burning of a replica Viking longship. The festival usually takes place on the last Tuesday of January and is one of Scotland’s most famous cultural events. In my diorama, I decided to bring this beautiful celebration to life with both classic and stablemate sized models.

I dressed the stablemates up as Vikings that are helping ignite the fire.

 Within the fire, is a re-sculpted classic model to represent the dragons that they light on fire.

Here are some work-in-progress photos that show how I made it.

Thank you, Kayla. This is awesome. I really appreciate how fiery your pictures are. Good luck at BreyerFest!