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Thought I posted about this, but how about a Gallipoli diorama with 5000 54 mm figures in it( done by figure painters all over NZ), a construction site requiring hardhats, WETA, Sir Peter Jackson and more? First part is a photo series, not a still. Battle of Chunuk Bair. Second lInk is to an article on the project and has lots of good pics. Would've loved to have been involved with this. By the way, those are solid foam blocks carved out via a CNC laser profiler. Evidently, it was all one big carving, but the block had to be cut into smaller pieces to fit the museum's freight elevator, then reassembled on site, with all the joins concealed. Normal scene building techniques would've been to do the primary structure in light wood and chicken wire, requiring a completely different and considerably more awkward and expensive approach to actually getting the troops positioned.

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https://www.facebook.com/Love.Scale.Models/photos/pcb.1799190337043750/1799189723710478/?type=3

http://anzacdiorama.blogspot.cl/2015/05/first-pics-of-massive-gallipoli-diorama.html

Regards,

John Kettler


 

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10 hours ago, John Kettler said:

Thought I posted about this, but how about a Gallipoli diorama with 5000 54 mm figures in it( done by figure painters all over NZ), a construction site requiring hardhats, WETA, Sir Peter Jackson and more? First part is a photo series, not a still. Battle of Chunuk Bair. Second lInk is to an article on the project and has lots of good pics. Would've loved to have been involved with this. By the way, those are solid foam blocks carved out via a CNC laser profiler. Evidently, it was all one big carving, but the block had to be cut into smaller pieces to fit the museum's freight elevator, then reassembled on site, with all the joins concealed. Normal scene building techniques would've been to do the primary structure in light wood and chicken wire, requiring a completely different and considerably more awkward and expensive approach to actually getting the troops positioned.

28379816_1799189723710478_38425960941017

https://www.facebook.com/Love.Scale.Models/photos/pcb.1799190337043750/1799189723710478/?type=3

http://anzacdiorama.blogspot.cl/2015/05/first-pics-of-massive-gallipoli-diorama.html

Regards,

John Kettler

I got excited -- thinking that Peter Jackson was making a Gallipoli movie.

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Dog vs. Leopard.....Fight!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/dog-fight-leopard-video-puppy-rescue-india-forest-a8379571.html

Dog Wins!!!!!

Looks like the dog got a good one in on the leopard's right front elbow.....That's a serious wound for an arboreal ambush predator (especially one with a city full of p*****d off Indians hunting for it).

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I had the privilege of meeting the man decades ago when he was on a book tour in LA.  Got him to sign  a copy of "The Right Stuff" which is still around here someplace.  

I assumed he was dead by now.  But he's going strong at 95!

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Chuck Yeager was so hard core that he flew the Bell X-1 to glory--with one arm broken! Used a piece of wood to close the canopy.

Meanwhile, we have this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/police-chase-armored-vehicle-stolen-from-virginia-military-base-1249881667538

Also, this, which has my head spinning. 

John Kettler

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54 minutes ago, John Kettler said:

Chuck Yeager was so hard core that he flew the Bell X-1 to glory--with one arm broken!

Sorry, John, but I have to contradict you on this one. According to all I have ever read on this event, it was a rib—which is plausible—not an arm—which is not—that was broken. If you have a source that says arm, I'd like to see it.

Michael

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Michael Emrys,

You are correct as to part, but not quantity. He broke two ribs as a result of falling from a horse.

Erwin,

Unfortunately, I have no control over what FB serves up, and I'd note YT is similarly infested, as it were. Wish there was just a pure link, but I think it's a matter of luck to get one.

Regards,

John Kettler

 

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Toy UFO taken off shelves for ‘teaching kids that Nazis achieved space travel’

https://www.thelocal.de/20180619/toy-nazi-ufo-taken-off-market-after-criticism

Odd headline as the German V2 rocket was first man-made object in 1944 to to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line, but the only folk to get upset will be the Kettlerians as the model doesn't have underslung Panther turrets... 🙂

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13 hours ago, Erwin said:

Dam - that would be worth a few bob today... if you'd snapped up a bunch. 

Maybe the real reason the toy was removed is that the US is basing its new "Space War" concepts on it??

That's not even a slightly rare kit, it's a very recent Revell reboxing of the not terribly ancient Hand & Head 1/72 Haunebu kit (also reboxed by Wave):

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/1119689-revell-03903-dornier-stra-haunebu-ii-flying-saucer

It's OK, but there is a much better (as in bigger & better detailed) 1/72 Haunebu kit from Squadron:

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https://www.squadron.com/Squadron-Models-1-72-Haunebu-II-German-Flying-Sa-p/sqm0001.htm

You can easily find any of these kits on eBay or Amazon.  ;)

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