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Author Topic: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama  (Read 5606 times)

Offline Arteis

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The first public photos have been released of the room-sized diorama of the Battle of Chunuk Bair at The Great War Exhibition in Wellington, populated with five thousand 54mm figures.

The diorama is the brainchild of world-famous movie director and WW1 buff, Sir Peter Jackson. He enlisted the former chief of New Zealand's defence forces, Lt General (rtd) Rhys Jones, himself a keen wargamer, to lead this official WW100 commemoration project.

Alan and Michael Perry, two of the foremost miniature figure sculptors in the world, were engaged to produce the figures; and leading movie special effects company Weta Workshop to make the massive terrain.

The 5000 miniatures were painted by 140 enthusiastic Kiwi wargamers organised in teams of volunteers right across the country.

So pop on over to the official Mustering The Troops blog for loads of photos of this amazing diorama:

http://anzacdiorama.blogspot.co.nz/2015/05/first-pics-of-massive-gallipoli-diorama.html

Here are some sample pics from the above blog:







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Roly Hermans
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Offline beefcake

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2015, 06:53:32 PM »
Wow, just wow


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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2015, 07:08:11 PM »
Very impressive  8)

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Offline James Morris

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2015, 09:04:24 PM »
Extraordinary.  Never seen anything quite like it.

Offline smirnoff

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2015, 09:31:51 PM »
A truly exceptional memorial

Offline gamer Mac

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2015, 10:50:20 PM »
WOW :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

Offline Timotl

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2015, 01:52:09 AM »
Gonna be hard to move the figures around with that glass in the way.... :'(

Offline von Lucky

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2015, 02:53:05 AM »
Wow, just wow

I agree - and you easily can see it in the flesh if you want to.
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Offline Atheling

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2015, 07:48:18 AM »
Saw this on your blog earlier Arteis.... it's wonderful!!  :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

Darrell.

Offline tomek917

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2015, 09:19:26 AM »
Simply amazing!  :-*

Might have to book a ticket to New Zealand...

Offline FramFramson

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2015, 07:08:22 PM »
Phenomenal stuff. Full credit to whoever did the terrain too!


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Offline von Lucky

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2015, 08:21:02 AM »
Professionals (Weta Workshop).

Offline Arteis

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2015, 09:50:08 AM »
Yep, the project was a mixture of volunteers and professionals.  There were 140 volunteer wargamers doing the painting and also applying a lot of the vegetation on the terrain; and a goodly number of professional model-makers from Weta Workshop did the main work on the terrain and the installation into the museum.


Offline Dr DeAth

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Re: First pics of Sir Peter Jackson's massive Gallipoli diorama
« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2015, 10:11:29 AM »
Outstanding!
Photos of my recent efforts are at www.littleleadmen.com and https://beaverlickfalls.blogspot.com

 

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