Peter Jackson's Gallipoli

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besilarius

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Boggit

Amazing piece of work. That must have taken thousands of man hours to make. Is it completely finished yet?
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Pinetree

It's been on display over a year now, I've been twice to see it. Really impressive. the display itself is surrounded by weapon displays and colourised photographs from the Gallipoli Campaign, which in itself is part of an overall WW1 exhibition.

Here's some pics of the diorama I took with my phone (so not the greatest quality):

















Gen. Montgomery: "Your men don't salute much."
Gen. Freyberg: "Well, if you wave at them they'll usually wave back."

Pinetree

Here's a selection of the colourised photos:


























Gen. Montgomery: "Your men don't salute much."
Gen. Freyberg: "Well, if you wave at them they'll usually wave back."

Pinetree

And here's some pics from the WW1 display:





























Gen. Montgomery: "Your men don't salute much."
Gen. Freyberg: "Well, if you wave at them they'll usually wave back."

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Barthheart

Great pics! Thanks for posting all that.  O0

Boggit

@Pinetree :)

You don't do yourself justice. Those are some excellent pics. I'd love to see it for real, but your pics really did bring it to life, so thanks for that.

I'm playing out the campaign using Squad Battles First World War with Cyrano. I'm playing the ANZAC's and it has been a horrendously bloody affair. Since playing the game, I've done a bit of research on the campaign, and it makes you weep at what those poor devils had to put up with. It was an awfully conceived campaign, with equally awful leadership at the higher levels of command. Far better not to have attempted it in the first place.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

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bob48

Stunning. Thank you for posting that.
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Pinetree

No worries. :) I had you guys in mind when I took these, I just needed motivation to upload them. Imgur made it pretty painless in the end.
Gen. Montgomery: "Your men don't salute much."
Gen. Freyberg: "Well, if you wave at them they'll usually wave back."