Brisbane Diorama - 2015 (1 Viewer)

Wayne...

you and your crew are creating some museum masterpieces...

that looks fantastic!
 
One more Sunday......today we continued work on the Gallilopi dio, some pics.






 
I had thought of doing something with some beach mats and boats, but after seeing this....I don't know. Love these works in progress pics, builds the anticipation for the end result. Sure to be another master piece. We all dream of being able to make a grand dio, if only we had the space. You guys are "living the dream." :smile2: Chris
 
Many thanks to Wayne for keeping the pictures of the dioramas turning over. It has been a rather hectic time and I have mainly been a reader of the forum rather than a participant. I just thought it was time to provide an overview of where we are up to in terms of diorama building in Brisbane and how we have sought to establish links with other institutions. It is not offered as a suggestion for anyone to follow but just might prove of interest to those who enjoy another take on the hobby and to emphasise the benefit of a broad view of the possibilities rather than the limitations of what is admittedly a niche hobby.

Three years ago a group of us began meeting at our TS shop here in Brisbane. Most of us were relatively new to the hobby so were not as scared by the 89 dollar tank with ten figures delivered to the house by Playboy bunnies and accepted that 32 - 35 dollars was a reasonable price for what my wife described as 'little pieces of art'. She is an art lecturer at university so her word carried some weight. She also has very, very high standards{sm4}. The making of dioramas seemed a means of value adding to the hobby so each of us made some attempt to display our figures in an appropriate setting, with varying degrees of success which placed me firmly at one end of the spectrum. As a side interest quite separate from my uni work I ran a museum at one of the oldest schools in Brisbane. It was not a cash cow in terms of money but did cover half of my hobby expenditure in any given year and gave me valuable links with the schooling system for research projects.

I floated the idea with our little group of building some dioramas in preparation for the looming centenary of WW1. For the TS guys, they were given a broad canvas on which to work, and in return the college received their labour and the loan of their toy soldiers. While the museum budget covered some of the materials, it was clearly not going to be enough. I applied for a 3000 dollar grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs. That money helped to pay for the perspex covers, which of course the college now owns. Using that initial success and the hard evidence of a small exhibition publication, I then applied for a Queensland Government Anzac Grant (30 000 dollars) and an Australian Government Arts and Culture Grant (30 000 dollars). Had I gone for the grants 'cold' it would have been quite a challenge to win funding. The success of the early diorama construction showed the museum's capacity to deliver a meaningful outcome. To our considerable joy, we won both grants. Other grant winners were major institutions such as the Maritime Museum in Sydney. In particular, winning a federal grant as the only university/school partnership among the 32 successful recipients was quite an achievement.This time around, therefore, we have more in the kitty to work with and the dioramas, though central to our success and our future plans, were now part of a much more ambitious project. I write the grants and have established and maintained the cross institutional connections but without doubt the grant money success was built on the foundation provided by the wonderful work by the Brisbane guys and the support of our local TS shop. In addition, King and Country and John Jenkins have both generously and in unsolicited acts of generosity, provided figures for our use which was very helpful at a practical level and very much appreciated at a personal one. Connections, however so humble, with the manufacturers are obviously vital to the longevity of the hobby.

The project includes:


A museum display of dioramas commemorating the military experience of Old Boys that have been inspired by the work of Charles Bean in the Australian War Memorial in the 1920s. There will be dioramas depicting Gallipoli, the Western Front, Australian Light Horse, North Africa (1942) and New Guinea (1942 - thank you Thomas Gunn or we would have been in a bind!). The dioramas will be photographed for a 40 page A4 colour publication.

A spectacular sound and light show on the front lawn of the College in October celebrating the college’s 125th year and the military service of her old boys. A fifty piece orchestra and thirty person choir will provide the music.

A children's picture book to be published in October 2015 which tells the story of two Nudgee students during the First World War.

A monumental six panel embroidery measuring nine metres inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry that charts the experience of the college and her Old Boys between 1914 – 1919.

We have other smaller successes along the way - an article in Toy Soldier Collector, an invitation to submit a chapter on the dioramas to a world handbook on arts and a couple of conference presentations.

Hardly a universal guide to enjoying the hobby, but I hope the above summary gives a sense of what we have been up to in TS terms in Brisbane. If anyone is in town, drop me a line and I will give you a tour - and I will even shown you the secret Napoleonic dioramas in the disused room!

Jack
 
Jack said:
Many thanks to Wayne for keeping the pictures of the dioramas turning over. It has been a rather hectic time and I have mainly been a reader of the forum rather than a participant. I just thought it was time to provide an overview of where we are up to in terms of diorama building in Brisbane and how we have sought to establish links with other institutions. It is not offered as a suggestion for anyone to follow but just might prove of interest to those who enjoy another take on the hobby and to emphasise the benefit of a broad view of the possibilities rather than the limitations of what is admittedly a niche hobby.

Three years ago a group of us began meeting at our TS shop here in Brisbane. Most of us were relatively new to the hobby so were not as scared by the 89 dollar tank with ten figures delivered to the house by Playboy bunnies and accepted that 32 - 35 dollars was a reasonable price for what my wife described as 'little pieces of art'. She is an art lecturer at university so her word carried some weight. She also has very, very high standards{sm4}. The making of dioramas seemed a means of value adding to the hobby so each of us made some attempt to display our figures in an appropriate setting, with varying degrees of success which placed me firmly at one end of the spectrum. As a side interest quite separate from my uni work I ran a museum at one of the oldest schools in Brisbane. It was not a cash cow in terms of money but did cover half of my hobby expenditure in any given year and gave me valuable links with the schooling system for research projects.

I floated the idea with our little group of building some dioramas in preparation for the looming centenary of WW1. For the TS guys, they were given a broad canvas on which to work, and in return the college received their labour and the loan of their toy soldiers. While the museum budget covered some of the materials, it was clearly not going to be enough. I applied for a 3000 dollar grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs. That money helped to pay for the perspex covers, which of course the college now owns. Using that initial success and the hard evidence of a small exhibition publication, I then applied for a Queensland Government Anzac Grant (30 000 dollars) and an Australian Government Arts and Culture Grant (30 000 dollars). Had I gone for the grants 'cold' it would have been quite a challenge to win funding. The success of the early diorama construction showed the museum's capacity to deliver a meaningful outcome. To our considerable joy, we won both grants. Other grant winners were major institutions such as the Maritime Museum in Sydney. In particular, winning a federal grant as the only university/school partnership among the 32 successful recipients was quite an achievement.This time around, therefore, we have more in the kitty to work with and the dioramas, though central to our success and our future plans, were now part of a much more ambitious project. I write the grants and have established and maintained the cross institutional connections but without doubt the grant money success was built on the foundation provided by the wonderful work by the Brisbane guys and the support of our local TS shop. In addition, King and Country and John Jenkins have both generously and in unsolicited acts of generosity, provided figures for our use which was very helpful at a practical level and very much appreciated at a personal one. Connections, however so humble, with the manufacturers are obviously vital to the longevity of the hobby.

The project includes:


A museum display of dioramas commemorating the military experience of Old Boys that have been inspired by the work of Charles Bean in the Australian War Memorial in the 1920s. There will be dioramas depicting Gallipoli, the Western Front, Australian Light Horse, North Africa (1942) and New Guinea (1942 - thank you Thomas Gunn or we would have been in a bind!). The dioramas will be photographed for a 40 page A4 colour publication.

A spectacular sound and light show on the front lawn of the College in October celebrating the college’s 125th year and the military service of her old boys. A fifty piece orchestra and thirty person choir will provide the music.

A children's picture book to be published in October 2015 which tells the story of two Nudgee students during the First World War.

A monumental six panel embroidery measuring nine metres inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry that charts the experience of the college and her Old Boys between 1914 – 1919.

We have other smaller successes along the way - an article in Toy Soldier Collector, an invitation to submit a chapter on the dioramas to a world handbook on arts and a couple of conference presentations.

Hardly a universal guide to enjoying the hobby, but I hope the above summary gives a sense of what we have been up to in TS terms in Brisbane. If anyone is in town, drop me a line and I will give you a tour - and I will even shown you the secret Napoleonic dioramas in the disused room!

Jack
Click to expand...
The above is how you put together more than 40 words that actually says something, has meaning and is helpful, is not waffle and a defence of the indefensible. :wink2: Great fun is being had by all involved, many thanks to Nudgee college for allowing us such space to be big kids. But of course without Jack we kids wouldn't be able to come out to play...onya mate :salute::
Wayne.
 
WOWIE ZOWIE!!!

now that's what I call a cliff...

that is gonna look great...

no small scale stuff from you guys...^&grin
 
Jack said:
Many thanks to Wayne for keeping the pictures of the dioramas turning over. It has been a rather hectic time and I have mainly been a reader of the forum rather than a participant. I just thought it was time to provide an overview of where we are up to in terms of diorama building in Brisbane and how we have sought to establish links with other institutions. It is not offered as a suggestion for anyone to follow but just might prove of interest to those who enjoy another take on the hobby and to emphasise the benefit of a broad view of the possibilities rather than the limitations of what is admittedly a niche hobby.

Three years ago a group of us began meeting at our TS shop here in Brisbane. Most of us were relatively new to the hobby so were not as scared by the 89 dollar tank with ten figures delivered to the house by Playboy bunnies and accepted that 32 - 35 dollars was a reasonable price for what my wife described as 'little pieces of art'. She is an art lecturer at university so her word carried some weight. She also has very, very high standards{sm4}. The making of dioramas seemed a means of value adding to the hobby so each of us made some attempt to display our figures in an appropriate setting, with varying degrees of success which placed me firmly at one end of the spectrum. As a side interest quite separate from my uni work I ran a museum at one of the oldest schools in Brisbane. It was not a cash cow in terms of money but did cover half of my hobby expenditure in any given year and gave me valuable links with the schooling system for research projects.

I floated the idea with our little group of building some dioramas in preparation for the looming centenary of WW1. For the TS guys, they were given a broad canvas on which to work, and in return the college received their labour and the loan of their toy soldiers. While the museum budget covered some of the materials, it was clearly not going to be enough. I applied for a 3000 dollar grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs. That money helped to pay for the perspex covers, which of course the college now owns. Using that initial success and the hard evidence of a small exhibition publication, I then applied for a Queensland Government Anzac Grant (30 000 dollars) and an Australian Government Arts and Culture Grant (30 000 dollars). Had I gone for the grants 'cold' it would have been quite a challenge to win funding. The success of the early diorama construction showed the museum's capacity to deliver a meaningful outcome. To our considerable joy, we won both grants. Other grant winners were major institutions such as the Maritime Museum in Sydney. In particular, winning a federal grant as the only university/school partnership among the 32 successful recipients was quite an achievement.This time around, therefore, we have more in the kitty to work with and the dioramas, though central to our success and our future plans, were now part of a much more ambitious project. I write the grants and have established and maintained the cross institutional connections but without doubt the grant money success was built on the foundation provided by the wonderful work by the Brisbane guys and the support of our local TS shop. In addition, King and Country and John Jenkins have both generously and in unsolicited acts of generosity, provided figures for our use which was very helpful at a practical level and very much appreciated at a personal one. Connections, however so humble, with the manufacturers are obviously vital to the longevity of the hobby.

The project includes:


A museum display of dioramas commemorating the military experience of Old Boys that have been inspired by the work of Charles Bean in the Australian War Memorial in the 1920s. There will be dioramas depicting Gallipoli, the Western Front, Australian Light Horse, North Africa (1942) and New Guinea (1942 - thank you Thomas Gunn or we would have been in a bind!). The dioramas will be photographed for a 40 page A4 colour publication.

A spectacular sound and light show on the front lawn of the College in October celebrating the college’s 125th year and the military service of her old boys. A fifty piece orchestra and thirty person choir will provide the music.

A children's picture book to be published in October 2015 which tells the story of two Nudgee students during the First World War.

A monumental six panel embroidery measuring nine metres inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry that charts the experience of the college and her Old Boys between 1914 – 1919.

We have other smaller successes along the way - an article in Toy Soldier Collector, an invitation to submit a chapter on the dioramas to a world handbook on arts and a couple of conference presentations.

Hardly a universal guide to enjoying the hobby, but I hope the above summary gives a sense of what we have been up to in TS terms in Brisbane. If anyone is in town, drop me a line and I will give you a tour - and I will even shown you the secret Napoleonic dioramas in the disused room!

Jack
Click to expand...

.......and that is why I'm popping across the ditch for a second time this year in July, to meet up with an awesome group of blokes I'd otherwise never have had the opportunity to meet if it wasn't for this forum. ^&grin Cheers Marty, Yes the Mrs's has given me another hall pass, so look out Brissy, another dodgy Kiwi is heading you're way, even if it's only for a few days.:salute::
 
We were at it again today with progress on all three dio tables, some pics.....................







Wayne.
 
Quite a 'rugged' diorama you have created there..... just like the real heights above the beach,

keep on with the wonderful work,

can't wait to see the troops landing ,

John
 
Obee said:
Quite a 'rugged' diorama you have created there..... just like the real heights above the beach,

keep on with the wonderful work,

can't wait to see the troops landing ,

John
Click to expand...
Thanks John but won't be the landing but later on during in the campaign, but there will a few blokes in boats of course :wink2:
Wayne.
 
beautiful big scenery, me too waits anxiously the troop landing!! bravi... (plural of 'bravo' of course!)!!
Carlo
 
Hi Guys,
I've been following your wonderful Waterloon dio. I can't wait to see the finished result. Hougoumount is going to be the "business"!
Well Done,
Johnboy.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 2 (members: 0, guests: 2)
Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2024 XenForo Ltd.
Back
Top