Jack
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It is that time of year when the Brisbane collectors start to gather in a local museum to plan and build a variety of dioramas which will be unveiled to the collecting community at the annual dinner.
Once again Wayne, Bob, Brett, Phil, Glen and Martin will create history in miniature using a range of releases from King and Country, Thomas Gunn, John Jenkins and William Britains. Last year’s dinner was a great success – good food, good company and a variety of events ranging from the firing of a colonial cannon, highland dancing and the bagpipes.
The Brisbane Collectors are balancing a number of big events in 2015 – the hundredth anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign and the two hundredth anniversary of Waterloo being the two most pressing. Australians are generally very low key about Gallipoli but perhaps a few of you have heard us talking about it!
The first table will be an extension of our Western Front diorama. We have doubled the size of the diorama so as to include both the trench system and a much enlarged rear area. It will cover almost 10 square metres when completed. A second diorama will be a Battle of Britain airfield during September 1940, complete with the K&C RAF range which has now been augmented by a fire truck. A third diorama will be a massed French cavalry charge at Waterloo ( we will crack the 200 figure mark by quite some way!). It will be spread across two tables and include Wayne’s version of a famous series of farm buildings which some of you may have heard of!
We will then wait patiently for someone to release some figures for Gallipoli because when they do, we will have the cliffs and the water ready to go!
Once again Wayne, Bob, Brett, Phil, Glen and Martin will create history in miniature using a range of releases from King and Country, Thomas Gunn, John Jenkins and William Britains. Last year’s dinner was a great success – good food, good company and a variety of events ranging from the firing of a colonial cannon, highland dancing and the bagpipes.
The Brisbane Collectors are balancing a number of big events in 2015 – the hundredth anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign and the two hundredth anniversary of Waterloo being the two most pressing. Australians are generally very low key about Gallipoli but perhaps a few of you have heard us talking about it!
The first table will be an extension of our Western Front diorama. We have doubled the size of the diorama so as to include both the trench system and a much enlarged rear area. It will cover almost 10 square metres when completed. A second diorama will be a Battle of Britain airfield during September 1940, complete with the K&C RAF range which has now been augmented by a fire truck. A third diorama will be a massed French cavalry charge at Waterloo ( we will crack the 200 figure mark by quite some way!). It will be spread across two tables and include Wayne’s version of a famous series of farm buildings which some of you may have heard of!
We will then wait patiently for someone to release some figures for Gallipoli because when they do, we will have the cliffs and the water ready to go!
