01-03-2011, 10:23 PM
Uwe,
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the diorama and the booklet. I also wish it could have been displayed in Germany. Tony Clunn was very helpful in his coordination with the museum, but time and a new museum director conspired against the museum aquiring the piece. Logistics would also likely have been a nightmare. There is still hope for public display - the American Hermann Society museum in New Ulm Minnisota is looking to get the diorama. I have been in contact with them and we are working transport issues. I have been in contact off and on with them for the last year or so. Hopefully the diorama will soon have a home with them. I would much prefer it be where it could be viewed rather than taking up space in a box in my back room. It is kind of big.
As for 100 figures... I probably could have talked Jim Corless (Time Machine) out of more figures and/or pieces, but I simply ran out of gas. Time and motivation combine to make each figure twice as difficult to complete as the one before. I'll let you do the math... Although the Time Machine figures are not 100% historically correct and many of figures share the same pieces, they are fairly close and are quite easy to work with, producing a very satisfactory result. I do highly recommend them.
Teutoburger Wald is not my only big project with TIme Machine. We also did a 42 figure diorama of the last stand of the 44th Foot at Gandamak. There is a "how-to" book to go with that, but it is not yet up and posted on the Time Machine's website (however, if anyone wants a copy, PM me your e-mail and I will send you one). Currently, I am working on a diorama of a portion of the Alamo.
Thanks again.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the diorama and the booklet. I also wish it could have been displayed in Germany. Tony Clunn was very helpful in his coordination with the museum, but time and a new museum director conspired against the museum aquiring the piece. Logistics would also likely have been a nightmare. There is still hope for public display - the American Hermann Society museum in New Ulm Minnisota is looking to get the diorama. I have been in contact with them and we are working transport issues. I have been in contact off and on with them for the last year or so. Hopefully the diorama will soon have a home with them. I would much prefer it be where it could be viewed rather than taking up space in a box in my back room. It is kind of big.
As for 100 figures... I probably could have talked Jim Corless (Time Machine) out of more figures and/or pieces, but I simply ran out of gas. Time and motivation combine to make each figure twice as difficult to complete as the one before. I'll let you do the math... Although the Time Machine figures are not 100% historically correct and many of figures share the same pieces, they are fairly close and are quite easy to work with, producing a very satisfactory result. I do highly recommend them.
Teutoburger Wald is not my only big project with TIme Machine. We also did a 42 figure diorama of the last stand of the 44th Foot at Gandamak. There is a "how-to" book to go with that, but it is not yet up and posted on the Time Machine's website (however, if anyone wants a copy, PM me your e-mail and I will send you one). Currently, I am working on a diorama of a portion of the Alamo.
Thanks again.
Kevin
