Rice plantation museum model close-up of two figures cooking at an open fire beside thatched stone huts and firewood

Full rice plantation diorama in five sections showing tidal rice fields through the seasons beside a village street

Overhead view of the plantation village street lined with thatched huts, fenced gardens and figures processing rice

Low close-up of a green rice field beside a dike and wooden trunk gate, with field worker figures in the background

Top-down view of figures working on raised dikes between flooded ditches and golden rice fields in the model

Eye-level view of figures threshing and winnowing rice on mats in front of thatched huts and wooden barrels

Village scene with figures carrying rice sheaves in the foreground and others threshing near huts and barrels

Angled view down a dike with a figure holding a pole by a trunk gate and workers bridging a ditch with a plank

Portfolio Museum Models

Rice Plantation Museum Model

This rice plantation model was built for the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC. It was built in 1:87 scale.

The model shows the seasonal changes of rice tidal fields in the late 1700s and how the fields were worked. A portion of the model shows the hand-processing by slaves of the rice and includes various dioramas of slaves working on the plantation.

Each of the slave figure models was hand edited by our in-house design gurus allowing this model to depict the people working in the fields, processing the rice, and going about their daily lives on the plantation. This gives the model a realism that is missing in a lot of dioramas that use off-the-shelf, stock figures.