"Gallipoli diorama " Topic

massive diorama of the Battle of Chunuk Bair
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Really amazing.

Makes me want to see the Battle of the Little Bighorn done in 54mm.

One thing that impresses me (out of many) is the variety of colors seen in the ANZAC forces. I had assumed everything there was in different shades of khaki.

Impressive.

Absolutely stunning. So glad to have seen it, thanks for posting.

Full credit to all who contributed to the diorama and to the vision, drive, enthusiasm and leadership to make it happen.

It's not clear to me, are these 54mm figures the ones especially commissioned by Peter Jackson, and are they now on sale to the public?

Don't think I've ever seen anything like this.

@ Captain DEwell

1) The diorama figures were commissioned from the Perrys specifically for this project, but only in December last year. They are not the ones commissioned a few years ago by Sir Peter for his private collection. But some of the new ones are based on the greens of those older figures.

2) They are not currently for sale, and any future decision about this would lie with The Great War Exhibition.

Arteis02, thanks, I appreciate your reply.

I would love to know what Peter Jackson really thinks about the Gallipoli diorama and did he envisage seeing anything so spectacular when he comissioned his own Perry figures, those years ago. The expression on his face in the photgraph with the Perry twins probably explains a great deal his about inner thoughts. Marvellous.

EDIT: Wouldn't it be amusing if Peter Jackson's specially comissioned Perry Gallipoli figures from a few years ago remain unpainted in a box on a shelf somewhere, waiting. He would then be a regular guy wargamer/figure painter.

Well, certainly all his model railway terrain materials we had to use at the last minute when we ran out was still all in its boxes!