True, that was one of my favorite aspects.
I used to build dioramas with my Tamiya armor.
Plaster walls and buildings with battle damage, etc. Fun stuff.
I’ve never really done dioramas, though I have seen a lot of them. Some guys do amazing things with the sea. Others build them at, or coming into detailed dock facilities. I prefer setting them together in their CSGs or other groups on their stands.
If I had an entire room for the purpose of display, it would be nice to take about half of it and make it a huge diorama with the various CSGs, Phibrons, SAGs etc. arrayed in allied formations facing the agressor forces arrayed in a similar fashion. But the CO at out house has not approved the appropriations for the funding! LOL!