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Joerg Bender	18 May 2015 7:12 a.m. PST
From 2 June to 11 October a big 28mm diorama on the Battle of Waterloo will be on Display at Bomann-Museum in Celle. More info (in German) and pictures can be found here: link
Artilleryman	18 May 2015 7:15 a.m. PST
Wow! Just … wow!
JimDuncanUK	18 May 2015 7:27 a.m. PST
I bet the Prussians will be well represented.
Joerg Bender	18 May 2015 8:11 a.m. PST
Focus will be on Hanoverian and KGL troops (Celle is located close to Hanover). It's a two part diorama showing the same area at two different times during the battle. You can see La Haye Sainte on both dioramas.
ColCampbell	18 May 2015 8:36 a.m. PST
It actually appears to be the final French cavalry attacks on both sides of La Haye Sainte. But what ever it is showing, it is fantastic!! Jim
Nashville	18 May 2015 8:36 a.m. PST
Translation On the last long weekend we have that are Heiko, Koppi, Vasa, John, Klaus, Dirk and I built up under the direction of Jens a diorama in Celle. The theme of the diorama is naturally Waterloo … on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the battle of 18 June 1815. A few years ago designed some members of this team different Waterloo diorama in Hamburg, Braunschweig and also, as in this year, in the beautiful half-timbered town of Celle , The Boman Museum in Celle, where our diorama was created, has a strong connection to Hanover military history and so it is no surprise that lay in the design of the Focus on the Hanoverian troops and the KGL. Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 02 Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 03 Thursday morning, the building starts with the discharge of the Transportation … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 04 The material and the characters are sorted and stored … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 05 The substructure and the orientation of the terrain plates are discussed … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 06 Briefing of the team … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 07 Yet we are all skeptical about whether the concept of the museum, which has two separate dioramas, will also be visually appealing, each with a model of the farm La Haye Sainte … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 08 In an adjoining room, we discovered the little diorama, which we had already built in early February for the museum. It shows the combined square of Hanoverian battalions Bremen and Verden, approximately 1,000 soldiers during the battle. The exhibit served in recent weeks as a teaser for our great diorama … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 09 Incredibly, 95% of all troops were painted by one person of our team … and incredible Dirk also painted still during the construction … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 10 Finally it comes to the landscaping and placement of figures. In contrast to our earlier dioramas, the figures were not completely interspersed with model grass, but inserted in prefabricated terrain features … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 11 In Diorama some LEDs were installed, which later on certain button battlefield events to visually show … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 12 It is going well. The great attack of the French infantry is already … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 14 And the English squares on the western side of the battlefield to take shape … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 13 Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 15 Sprint and a great view of the labor ladder. From this perspective, are also good to see the two optically separate dioramas. The separation in the center is intended to indicate the two temporally different battlefield events, the farm on the outer edge for orientation for the visitor is … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 16 Here are the first pictures of the finished diorama. The whole thing is actually held in 28mm scale figure, has a length of 12 meters, a depth of 5 meters and is equipped with more than 15,000 characters … Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 17 Waterloo Celle 2015 Selection 18 More soon …
nsolomon99	18 May 2015 4:12 p.m. PST
Wow! Just … wow!
Green Tiger	19 May 2015 4:05 a.m. PST
Who is the gentleman in the red coat on the cover of the programme?
plutarch 64	19 May 2015 5:14 a.m. PST
I especially like the last picture and the way they have represented trampled crops alongside waist-high unripened June harvest, as d'Erlon's attack moves up the ridge. That is real attention to detail, and to me it seems quite inspired to represent the two major actions either side of La Haye as a split diorama, with the farmhouse itself split in two to provide an element of continuity. Great stuff.
tuscaloosa	19 May 2015 11:42 a.m. PST
Very impressive! One minor point: when possible, squares were formed so as to point a corner towards the enemy, so as to enable fire from two sides to the enemy. I could certainly be wrong as far as interpreting the diorama setup, though.

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