*
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
March 29, 2024, 10:44:33 AM

Login with username, password and session length

Donate

We Appreciate Your Support

Members
Stats
  • Total Posts: 1686646
  • Total Topics: 118117
  • Online Today: 788
  • Online Ever: 2235
  • (October 29, 2023, 12:32:45 AM)
Users Online

Recent

Author Topic: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama  (Read 2251 times)

Offline TacticalPainter

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 590
    • The Tactical Painter
ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« on: November 19, 2018, 03:22:51 AM »
Apologies for taking this a bit off topic but I thought the group might be interested in this. My brother-in-law recently completed a commission to build a diorama for a new exhibition gallery in Sydney's recently renovated ANZAC War Memorial. It's a large piece showing an action where Capt Jeffries of the 34th Battalion won a posthumous VC during an assault on a German pillbox. The scale is approximately 1/25. There's move information about it and the construction here https://thetacticalpainter.blogspot.com/2018/11/anzac-war-memorial-passchendaele-diorama.html




Offline Iron Haiden

  • Bookworm
  • Posts: 79
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2018, 09:10:29 AM »
Awesome work by the bro in law

Offline Mick_in_Switzerland

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • *
  • Posts: 2476
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2018, 09:16:42 AM »
That is very impressive - more so when you read the blog post explanation of how it was made. :-*.

Please say "Well done" to your brother in law.

Offline fred

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 4360
    • Miniature Gaming
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2018, 12:35:29 PM »
Thank you for sharing.

Awesome work by the bro in law

Indeed it is!

Offline carlos marighela

  • Elder God
  • Posts: 10763
  • Flamenguista até morrer.
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2018, 01:14:01 PM »
Bloody impressive! I shall be sure to visit next time I’m up there.
Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

Offline Operator5

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 3344
  • The Silent Sentinel
    • Rattrap Productions LLC
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2018, 01:41:26 PM »
Amazing! I love all the details in it.
Richard A. Johnson
On Facebook: Rattrap on Facebook

Offline Driscoles

  • The Dude
  • Moderator
  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 4326
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2018, 09:27:17 PM »
Outstanding work. Shows all the gruesome tragedy!
, ,

Offline TacticalPainter

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 590
    • The Tactical Painter
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2018, 02:43:04 AM »
One of the best features are the touch screen interactive displays that surround the diorama. They have really made an effort to help people understand exactly what is going on and the background. You can pick individual weapons to zoom in on and then find out more about them, why they were used etc. There's also an explanation of the tactics being used and it explains what the Lewis gunners are trying to do and what the assault party is trying to do. Not only is it a stunning bit of modelling but it's also a very good exhibit for helping a general audience understand that part of the war.

Offline Metternich

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 2559
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2018, 04:52:45 PM »
Extremely well done.

Offline Muzfish4

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 997
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2018, 07:24:20 AM »
Amazing work.

I'll be sure to drop by with the Little Fish next time I'm in Emerald City (should be over Xmas this year).

It's a really interesting piece of architecture and well worth a look for anyone visiting Sydney.

Offline Vanvlak

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 5290
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2018, 07:45:42 AM »
That's a really impressive bit of work, all the way from the mud through the reinforcement in the concrete jutting out at the damaged corner of the pillbox to the the individual troops.
And - your tank is a beautiful piece of work too!

Offline FramFramson

  • Elder God
  • Posts: 10681
  • But maybe everything that dies, someday comes back
Re: ANZAC Memorial Passchendaele diorama
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2018, 03:07:07 AM »
Excellent work, just excellent. Top notch modelling.


I joined my gun with pirate swords, and sailed the seas of cyberspace.