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Waterloo Remodelled

Posted by Captain Sibourne on 12 Oct 2021, 20:28

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.

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Posted by T. Dürrschmidt on 12 Oct 2021, 21:06

You have both....a very nice battle diorama and a very nice garden.....more a park as I can see. :shock:
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Posted by Captain Sibourne on 12 Oct 2021, 21:20

That's the garden at Hougoumont, but glad you think it looks that realistic!
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Posted by C M Dodson on 12 Oct 2021, 21:32

Stunning work in ‘the grand manner’.

Good luck with the exhibition .

Best wishes,

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Posted by CliosPaintingBench on 13 Oct 2021, 00:15

Well, this is intimidatingly fantastic! This looks like more man-hours of modelling and painting than someone has in their lifetime!
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Posted by MABO on 13 Oct 2021, 00:46

:shock: :shock: :shock:
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Posted by Thomas Mischak on 13 Oct 2021, 06:19

Dear James,

thank you for the pictures.
A very impressive work!

Good Luck with the Convention!

Bye
Thomas
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Posted by Minuteman on 13 Oct 2021, 09:27

Magnificent and truly spectacular! The high-altitude photos show the troop-masses and very finely-crafted buildings to good effect.

Had you been piloting a hot-air balloon above Mon St Jean in mid- June 1815 this is what you might well have seen.
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Posted by Captain Sibourne on 13 Oct 2021, 12:33

You are all too kind. This has been a team effort so I'd like thank publicly my colleagues.
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Posted by Mr. Andrea on 13 Oct 2021, 13:35

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Posted by Graeme on 13 Oct 2021, 17:03

The international borders are closed otherwise I might just have been there at the right time to visit this.

However I am very pleased that I got to see your posts on the forums. Thank you and thanks to everyone involved in this remarkable project; I hope the exhibition goes very well.
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Posted by Michael Robert on 13 Oct 2021, 18:03

Mindblowing, Captain,

it has been said already, but I need to express it myself.
In terms of Quality and Quantity just unbeatable. I had seen a number of Waterloo dios before, but yours is just the top of the crop. The new standard. It definitely allows to taste the spirit of this great event.

Will be very hard to redo - and why should anyone?
So, a big bow to your great team effort, and thank you for sharing here on Benno's

Michael
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Posted by Kostis Ornerakis on 13 Oct 2021, 18:19

I would like to add my respect! :-D
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Posted by Bessiere on 13 Oct 2021, 18:51

Amazing work by you James, your father and all the talented painters who have contributed figures to bring these images to life....simply incredible!
Cheers,
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Posted by Captain Sibourne on 13 Oct 2021, 21:39

I'm humbled by your kind comments, thank you everyone. And Bessiere, your Cuirassiers will appear next year, to stunning effect.
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Posted by PaulRPetri on 14 Oct 2021, 01:27

Unbelievable...!!!
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Posted by Bluefalchion on 14 Oct 2021, 14:15

Congrats on landing the chance to display this marvelous work at the UK National Army Museum.

This will be a worthy exhibit, to say the least.
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Posted by Peter on 14 Oct 2021, 20:09

Always great to see your work again. :thumbup:

Congrats with the exhibition! :thumbup:
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Posted by sansovino on 17 Oct 2021, 18:16

A mega strong diorama! Wish you much success with your exhibition.
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Posted by Santi Pérez on 19 Oct 2021, 20:03

Simply espectacular, Captain Sibourne. My respect too. :shock: :drool: :love: :notworthy:

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