Peter Jackson & Weta Workshop NZ WW1 Museum Exhibitions (1 Viewer)

The Military Workshop said:
Great pics Toddy. Very good for giving an idea of how big the diorama is. NZ lucky to have Peter Jackson but when you see him next can you ask him to get a move on with his Dambusters Movie !{sm4}. Thanks for posting.

The picture of you beside the statue outside with the two guys and a donkey. For those that may not be aware the statue is Private Richard Alexander "Dick" Henderson MM (26 August 1895 – 14 November 1958) . He was a school-teacher who served with the New Zealand Medical Corps at Gallipoli. Like the Australian John Simpson Kirkpatrick, he used a donkey to carry wounded soldiers from the battlefield. He was later honoured with a Military Medal for repeatedly rescuing wounded from the battlefield while under heavy fire at the Battle of the Somme. A well known artwork of Henderson and his donkey was long thought to be of Simpson until many years later Henderson pointed out it was him.
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Thanks Brett, yes there is a whole section in Jacksons exhibition explaining the mix up with the identification of who the painting represents. It's very well done and again uses the 'colourisation' of a big photograph of Simpson himself. Jackson is very care to point out it was Simpson who started using the donkey's first and Henderson followed suit. Both are considered hero's for all the lives they saved and righty so!
 
Many thanks to everyone for viewing and for their 'likes' and posts. I'll try and upload some more resized photo's over the next few days and get some of Weta Workshops amazing displays at Te Papa.

You can tell Jackson is passionate about this topic and it shows throughout his exihibition, particularly with all the 'colourised' photographs of some famous black and white photographs of WW1.

His diorama is so big that it even incorparates a couple of concrete support pillars which you can see behind me in the first pic of his dio. Behind these two pillars is a gully full of Turks running towards Chunuk Bair from the Lone Pine battle. We couldn't get pics of this area because it's largely surrounded by walls, but it clearly shows the huge numbers the Kiwi's were facing.....scary stuff!
 
Hey Guys, here's four quick snaps of Jacksons WW1 western front diorama, unfortunately this display had quite a few visitors crowded around it so we didn't manage that many pic's of it or any of the lighted tunnels under the main trenches. I think you'll get the idea though.

It was of course very small compared with the Chunuk Bair display, but just as detailed.

Enjoy.

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Brilliant mate, almost as good as the one that those dodgy lads in Brissy built...^&grin

Tom
 
Desertkiwi said:
Hey Guys, here's four quick snaps of Jacksons WW1 western front diorama, unfortunately this display had quite a few visitors crowded around it so we didn't manage that many pic's of it or any of the lighted tunnels under the main trenches. I think you'll get the idea though.

It was of course very small compared with the Chunuk Bair display, but just as detailed.

Enjoy.

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Every well done, kinda have some idea as to what it takes to do such a diorama...a lot of time for a start.

 
I know some of you boys like ya big guns, so here's a couple more. Note the spent cartridges and home-made bombs lined up in the wall of the trench.

I forgot to also mention that there is lots of sound effects going on as you pass each display and even a vibrating full size trench as you walk through it at 'Te Papa'.

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Just wanted to show my Aussie cousins what they gifted to their Kiwi brothers earlier this year as part of the 100 year Anniversary of Gallipoli. If you ignore the idiot in the foreground you can see these giant pillars are quite spectacular and are located right in front of the tomb of the unknown soldier.

Also managed to digout two more pic's of the bus and limber. Not the greatest photo's but they give you a further idea of the scale and detail of the displays.
Again try to ignore the idiot and his ever expanding gut.

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Nice bunch of pic's once again mate and I hope you were careful with those stone pillars and didn't knock them all over! {eek3}^&grin

Tom
 
Ok, Guy's as promised here's a couple of snaps from the 'Weta Workshops' exhibition at the Te Papa museum in Wellington, NZ.

These huge life like figures are simply amazing and the detail is incredible. The photo's really don't do them justice. I'll post a few more pic's over the next few days.

Hope you enjoy them.

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Great stuff mate looking forward to more pics,I'm nearly convinced to get half my brain removed and come and visit ^&grin
 
wayne556517 said:
Great stuff mate looking forward to more pics,I'm nearly convinced to get half my brain removed and come and visit ^&grin
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Mate, you'll need both side of your noggin to upload this lot, it's even better seeing it in the flesh too!{sm4} Honestly you wouldn't regret popping over the ditch for a couple of days to view both exhibitions. We spent 4hrs at Peter Jacksons display and diorama alone and handly noticed the time.

I'll post some more snaps soon.:salute::
 
Crikey mate, those figures are amazing! Did you bring a trailer to take a set home...:tongue:

Who made them btw?

Tom
 
wayne556517 said:
Great stuff mate looking forward to more pics,I'm nearly convinced to get half my brain removed and come and visit ^&grin
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That's going overboard mate, you only need a quarter...^&grin

Tom
 
Incredible museum! Thanks for sharing pictures of your visit for us.
Cheers,
Brendan
 
Here's Weta Workshops ANZAC Cove diorama. It was very compact but full of detail and loads of ANZAC's.

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Every large figure has a both a story being narrated as you view them, plus an interactive screen displaying their life story. Each figure is based upon a real person who served during the Gallipoli landings and managed to survive the rest of the war, with most reaching old age.

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The 'white mountain' range you can see in the second photo is actually a light show describing the events of the first day of the Gallipoli landings and then a second display further on through the exhibition outlines the events surrounding the capture of Chunuk Bair. It's visually stunning and both displays attracted a lot of interest from visitors.

The last photograph on this page was quite shocking when you start reading about the actually losses of all the countries involved during this ill fated campaign. As you can see the Kiwi losses were horrendous, this was largely to do with the loses at Chunuk Bair itself and the way inwhich many troops were rotated back to Gallipoli after being rested or recovered from injury rather than sent home.



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