"Waterloo Remodelled" Topic

The Waterloo Remodelled exhibition will be at the UK National Army Museum from next Wednesday. Yesterday, I laid it all out in the garden to take advantage of a sunny day. The sections were Plancenoit, Hougoumont, La Haie Sainte, Papelotte and la Belle Alliance.

Here are some photographs:

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30,000 figures in total!

Quite impressive – thanks for sharing

A hard job, well done. A shame it could not be a game.

What a spectacular model, shame my tablet is the only way to see the pictures

Stunning work in ‘the grand manner'

Best wishes for the exhibition.

Chris

Well, its okay if you like THAT sort of thing. H
I LOVE that sort of thing.

If I had seen that as a child I would have never left.

Absolutely, breathtakingly and stunning!

Absolutely amazing.

Fantastic! Thanks for posting and doing it.

much better lighting than in the Museum . great to be able to see the detail .
congratulations

Outstanding display.
Thanks for sharing.

I agree with cavcrazy!

Wow…awesome

Fabulous, and thanks for the in progress photos too!

Superlatives fail me. Bloody good job by you and your group, mate.

Amazing! Thanks for sharing

Stupendous!! A truly amazing work by you and all your contributors. Too bad I'm on the left side of "the pond" and can't visit in person.

Jim

Mon Dieu!

Apart from the magnificent spectacle, it is fascinating to see the depictions of formations. I know a few gamers who could do with seeing what a battalion column actually looked like.

Of course some idiot (like me) will spoil the quality of your photography by saying the whole display must now be covered with a layer of cotton wool. Luckily that wind picked up in the last few minutes and blew all the smoke away.

Following the link shows even more superb images. I just love that low angle view of Hgmt through the trees. Your recent videos are superb too and someone needs to put them on-line somewhere.

Well just back from London two hours ago (we stayed on to watch WHU beat Spurs 1-0 ….it does not get much better than that)

Well, four nights ago we got to the NAM to see the models and, good as the photos are, you do have to see the real thing with your own eyes.

The sheer scale of what is still well short of final plans is simply incredible. I am very snooty about metal figures vs plastic, or I was, until I saw what folk have achieved. This is a real triumph.

I am determined to keep this going!

A few photos based on the phone of 'er indoors. Mine makes calls and even does these new text things (which I do think might catch on) but it is great source of amusement to the three sons. It is not quite "Wall Street" and Michael Douglas, but nearly so. What sickens me is the original pics are so much sharper than you will see here. They are taken by an amateur on a phone. She has no idea what white balance or depth of focus means. I use three spotlights, f27 or higher, a massive tripod, a many seconds exposure etc. She points her phone and produces what is actually much sharper than you see here. Sob……..

Anyway, her pics from a great night (stress we got there early. Within half an hour you could not get near the model as the wine flowed)

Great photos, and as you say, amazing what can be done with the simplest technology!

But some poor idiot had to transport the whole set up. Some poor idiot (the same poor idiot) had also to set it all up and then get it home.

Here is to that poor idiot and his dad for creating this (plus his wife, but that is different). Most of us have added a few hundreds (not thousands) of figures, at the most. But I could see mine at the margins (well, they were Prussians after all)

It really was a triumph.