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Having spoken to the museum curator, it is agreed that this diorama should depict as best as I am able, the battle at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, 13th October 1915 during which, elements of the 46th (North Midland) Division were involved. Specificaly the Leicestershire Regiment 1/5th battalion and 1/4th battlion, 138th (Lincoln and Leicester) Brigade.
Several men from my village were members of the Leicesters, and were killed during their assault.

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Not sure how this blog thing works, bit of an experiment really.
In response to blackronin I will be posting the progress of the museum project here, as well as the current shapeways aircraft in progress.

Originally Posted by johnbiggles

Originally Posted by Blackronin

I'll be following this thread.

Hi Joaquim, i have another project which has to take precedence at the moment




this is hopefully going to end up 46cm (18") by 270cm (9ft) in our local museum, in 1/76 scale, approx 4mm-1ft I should get 140+ scale yards between front lines, so people can see just how far the PBI had to go under fire to reach their objectives. 140 yds is below average

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Originally Posted by johnbiggles

Albatros B1, Albatros C1, and another Caudron G4

Might run into February as things are stacking up

[B][I]November 28, 1915[/I][/B]

The wind subsided suddenly over the front. And the weather got better with sunny cold days and no clouds. Then the orders came yesterday. I had to escort one of the new big bombers to make a bomb run into a small village where the French high command was staying for a big meeting. The information was very accurate and we had a small window of opportunity. A big fat and strange new kind of bomber landed in our aerodrome in late afternoon and was promptly ...