Golf course diorama for Mandai Executive Golf Course

A 1:400 diorama of Mandai Executive Golf Course, made as a keepsake before the course closes: every hole, bunker and path on one base.

Client: Mandai Executive Golf Course
Service: Scale Models
Made as: A gift marking the course's long history
Planned from: Satellite views checked against current site photos

Brief us on a model Send a brief

Scale of the model, so the whole course fits on one base: 1:400
Length of the base, as planned: 1 m
Spent drafting the map and testing materials: 2 weeks
Fabrication time, after design approval: 3 months or more

What we brought

What we can do
We model your site as it is today, not as the map shows it
The satellite images were out of date, so we planned each hole from current photos of the site.
How we look after you
A week-by-week plan before the build starts
We planned the layout, scale, grass and water materials week by week, with test prints for colour and depth.
What you get
Your whole course on one base, down to the cars on the road
At 1:400 it still carries pin flags, bunkers, paths, drains, bridges, the netted driving range, buildings and tiny cars.

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The whole project at a glance. Drag or swipe to browse; tap a picture to enlarge it.

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The finished piece
Greens, bunkers and paths run across several holes.
This shows a green, its bunkers and a bridge.
This shows a pin flag, bunker and tiny shelter.
Tiny cars sit on the road beside the course.
A clear resin edge forms the water.
The briefThe course is modelled hole by hole.
Planning the layoutThis site photo helped us plan the bunkers.
FabricationBunkers, greens and paths go in first.
Paths and drains run between the holes.
Build and assemblyTrees go in around the holes.
This shows the driving range nets and tee shelter.

The build

How we built it

5 steps, from the brief to the finished piece. Pick a step to jump to it.

The brief

Step 1 of 5

At Additive Inn, our 3D printing studio in Singapore, we built a 1:400 diorama of Mandai Executive Golf Course before the course closes. Every hole, bunker and path sits where it really is.

The finished diorama at a low angle across the fairways: gravel paths winding between greens and sand bunkers, trees, and a drain running down one side — The course is modelled hole by hole.

Planning the layout

Step 2 of 5

The satellite images were out of date: bunkers had changed shape and nothing under the trees showed from above. So we planned each hole from current site photos, told paths from drains, added the buildings, and planned test prints for colour and depth.

A photo taken on the real course: a sand bunker in front of a green, with a line of trees behind — This site photo helped us plan the bunkers.

Fabrication

Step 3 of 5

On the bench, the ground went down first: the greens, sand bunkers, gravel paths and drains, laid out hole by hole on the grass.

Part-built diorama: sand bunkers, greens with pin flags and gravel paths laid out on the grass, before most of the trees were added — Bunkers, greens and paths go in first.

Another part-built area: winding gravel paths, sand bunkers and a drain, with a block of trees along one edge — Paths and drains run between the holes.

Build and assembly

Step 4 of 5

Then the trees were planted around every hole, and the buildings, the netted driving range and tiny cars on the road went in.

The diorama on the workshop bench with trees added across the course, between the paths and bunkers — Trees go in around the holes.

The driving range on the workshop bench: a strip of grass between tall net posts, with a small white tee shelter with a red roof at the front — This shows the driving range nets and tee shelter.

The final build

Step 5 of 5

The whole course sits on one black display base, with the driving range behind its nets and a plate giving the scale and a north arrow.

Close view across several holes: greens with pin flags, large sand bunkers and gravel paths winding between trees — Greens, bunkers and paths run across several holes.

The details

Up close, each hole looks like the real one, down to the pin flags, bridges over the drains and tiny cars on the road.

Close-up of a green with a red pin flag and two sand bunkers, a small bridge crossing a drain behind it and trees around the edge — This shows a green, its bunkers and a bridge.

A green with a red pin flag and a small bunker, a tiny shelter among the trees behind and a gravel path curving around a tree — This shows a pin flag, bunker and tiny shelter.

The road along the edge of the diorama, with tiny model cars on grey gravel between strips of trees — Tiny cars sit on the road beside the course.

The edge of the diorama, where clear turquoise resin with stones set in it forms the water beside the grass — A clear resin edge forms the water.

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Golf course diorama for Mandai Executive Golf Course

What we brought

We model your site as it is today, not as the map shows it

A week-by-week plan before the build starts

Your whole course on one base, down to the cars on the road

Gallery