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Is there a good tutorial for making a diorama around here? One that has a resource list, preferably, like where to buy the required tools.

Look in the Tutorial section of the website.

If you really want to see another excellent resource on this subject, not trying to dis the tutorial section, check out from your local library system or pick up from amazon.com a book specifically about creating model dioramas called How to Build Dioramas by Sheperd Paine. It is AMAZING. Make sure you get the second edition though. The first edition is excellent, but the second is that much better. Anyhow, he goes over EVERY detail of planning, creating, detailing, lighting, photography and whatever you can imagine and even things you did not think of, for dioramas. I just bought the book earlier this week after drooling over my library's copy of first edition. Yes, almost everything he deals with in the book are World War II or other historical genres, but 99% of it translates quite well.

My favorite is the one with the broken tank and the soldiers digging a trench underneath and using the tank as a fighting position. Copying that but with a Rhino and some space marines could be tricky, yet awesome.

That's a pretty broad topic, honestly. Checking out books and modeling magazine articles is a solid bet (as mentioned, lots of what you'll find will likely be related to military modeling, but everything should translate pretty well, especially for wargames, regardless of time period).

You can find plenty of tutorials around for specific painting, modeling, and terrain-making techniques, so it's mostly a matter of planning what you want, then finding out how to make it. I'm sure there are articles somewhere on general composition that would give you enough good tips to turn a general concept into a distinct plan. From there, search for your specific elements - converting vehicle kits into wrecks, weathering, reposing models, dynamic lighting techniques, etc.

Yeh, I'm after doing something like this. So far I've got a Shrine of Aquila, and a SM Drop Pod, the plan is to have the Drop Pod behind the ruin, almost like it's smashed through (you can see enough through the shrine windows) and have a marine squad through the door/on the roof.

It's just finding ideas for a base/colouring etc that's the problem