News from the Wairarapa

The Masterton Marauders blog reports on a show-and-tell held at the club meeting last Sunday, which included some of the work members have been doing on our project.

Rex finishing off the last of his 54mm Turks for the diorama.

David, Ceilidh and Rex with some of the 80 54mm diorama figures painted in the Wairarapa.

'Wairarapa Times-Age' article

Here's the start of an article in the Wairarapa Times-Age today:

The Masterton Marauders Club's wargamers have answered Sir Peter Jackson's call to help create a Chunuk Bair diorama using 4000 individually painted miniature soldiers, in time for Anzac Day.

The club, which meets at the Masterton Croquet Club twice a month, has joined the "Mustering the Troops" project to paint the miniature soldiers.

The club has 80 of the 54mm-high Kiwi and Turkish pewter figurines to share out among members for painstakingly detailed painting ...

Read the rest of the article ...

Picture caption: ONE OF MANY: Masterton Marauders Wargaming Club member Ceilidh Evemy studies a painted figurine of a WWI Anzac soldier as he might have appeared at Gallipoli. The club is painting 80 soldiers, part of a national effort among hobbyists and wargamers to paint 4000 figures for a Chunuk Bair diorama for the Great War Exhibition in Wellington. 
PHOTO/ANDREW BONALLACK