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| The Exhibition is now open, What we've been working on the last 2 months. After hundreds of hours of
painting and hundreds of dollars of paint later finally get to show off
the diorama |
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| What my painting tray looked like for 2 months, Turks go in, Turks go out, Anzacs go in, Anzacs go out. |
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| Painting ad nauseum tempered by Firefly |
FIRST PAINTING BATTLESTATION "Calm before the Storm"
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| Turks and Anzacs in Various stages of Painting, this was our first painting battlestation. |
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| Bala (Bruce) painting away |
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| Dave "you guys suckered me in again" |
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| My friend Timon who could have painted his own figures but decided to get stuck in anyway. |
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| Roly, the Diorama Project official scribe, Check it his wonderful effort here |
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| one week left to go and she goes in head first, boots and all and whatnot. |
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| Yours truly, happy as a pig in mud. |
SECOND PAINTING BATTLESTATION "OMG OMG OMG"
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| Second battlestation at the Campbell household standardising and repainting figures, mostly Auckland mounted rifles. |
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| My pallete. |
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| Assembling the rest of Machine guns and repainting them. I ended up doing an additional 10 pairs of crew, 3 of which were Perry Greens sculpted the previous night. |
THIRD PAINTING BATTLESTATION "The Last Push"
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| 3rd painting Battlestation "The Last Push", the very last repainted miniatures 120+. |
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| The Last Push, Ashley painting the last of the Turkish Officers. |
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| The Last Push, Bruce working meticulously. |
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| Evelyn painting away. |
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| Fern "the painting Machine" |
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| Us going Crazy from painting (or from the primer fumes) |
The benefits for giving up one's time and volunteering
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| Meeting my favourite Sculptors from when I was a boy. |
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| Getting to meet Peter Jackson |
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| TV, what's TV? |
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| Being on National TV and gettinng my name spelt correctly. |
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| ...and getting some local Ink. |
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| And to end it all a sneaky picture taken by the wife late at night in bed. |
