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General => Community Events => Topic started by: skypurr on August 10, 2014, 16:19:28
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Following on from a very successful four day exhibition at Kirkbean in which after expenses we raised £1100 for hall funds, I have been busy sorting through and resizing my photos so am now able to post them.
My thanks go to Gordon (playmofire) and his wife Diane, and Walter (Walts-Trains) and his wife Marion for helping to make it such a success.
Walter brought along an airport display, some of the items available in the UK next year and a play area of mainly 123 toys which the visiting children enjoyed greatly.
Gordon set up a 16 feet x 8 feet Countryside Railway diorama with lots of little details - it even had an ongoing story which continues from the past 4 years - I'll leave him to tell that!
I made a 12 feet x 8 feet Victorian Seaside diorama, an 18th Century based Harbour Scene and a Countryside Fair based on our local country fairs here, plus an 8 feet square Egyptian Scene, consisting of tourists visiting the pyramids while a film crew were filming for a film about Ancient Egyptian.
My son James wanted to be involved and as an avid watcher of any musical shows on TV, he decided he wanted to do "The Voice UK". He provided all the ideas while I put them into practice!
My other son William helped with putting out figures and also put in a few funny touches of his own too!
My long suffering husband Sandy also helped with construction of the layouts and put out a lot of the parts for the Harbour scene.
This year we kept a record of visitors and we were surprised to find that overall we had more adults visiting than children!
There are a lot of photos so I will post them in seperate topics, and let Gordon post detailed photos of his own display,It was hard to take photos when there were lots of visitors as we were busy talking to them and difficult also to take photos of an entire diorama, but here are a few overall photos from each diorama and of the hall to start with ...
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/HALL3_zps37cf36d3.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/HALL3_zps37cf36d3.jpg.html)
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/HALL2_zps6dcc54bd.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/HALL2_zps6dcc54bd.jpg.html)
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/HALL1_zps4aecb344.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/HALL1_zps4aecb344.jpg.html)
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/HALL4_zps7c12b524.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/HALL4_zps7c12b524.jpg.html)
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/WALTER1_zpsd0e4750b.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/WALTER1_zpsd0e4750b.jpg.html)
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/GORDON1_zpsf68cb1e6.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/GORDON1_zpsf68cb1e6.jpg.html)
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/EGYPT_zpse71d2afb.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/EGYPT_zpse71d2afb.jpg.html)
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/HARBOUR2_zpsac87713a.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/HARBOUR2_zpsac87713a.jpg.html)
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/FAIR6_zps4590be27.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/FAIR6_zps4590be27.jpg.html)
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/SEASIDE_zpsa5275635.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/SEASIDE_zpsa5275635.jpg.html)
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/VOICE27_zps64f62e24.jpg) (http://s909.photobucket.com/user/skypurr/media/2014%20Kirkbean%20Playmboil%20Exhibition/VOICE27_zps64f62e24.jpg.html)
Elaine (http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/mgqueen.gif)
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Everything looks fantastic, Elaine! :clap: I especially love the idea of a film crew at the Pyramids - looking forward to seeing everyone's photos!
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Splendid, Elaine! Now I have to go back and look at everything again . . . and again. Looks like I have my Sunday afternoon entertainment all worked out! :love:
Joe
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How wonderful it all is. I was intending to say, 'My favourite is....' but the more I look at anything, that becomes my favourite. Including the hall scenes. Happy visitors are wonderful too.
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Thanks for sharing your photos, Elaine!
Quite impressive and it appears to have been a very well attended event.
Pleased to see that you are also attracting other wonderful presenters like Walt and Gordon! Hopefully, even more collectors from the UK will join you next year :)
And, who knows, you might even attract some collectors from other parts of the world.
Thanks again,
Richard
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Wonderful displays, thanks for sharing the photos. I agree the Egyptian combo scene is great. They really needto release avfilm crew again its a great way to combine themes.
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It looks great! It sounds like the exhibition was a great success again. :)
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Nice displays! What an active paymo community there.
:wave:
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What a wonderful diorama show you put on. It's so great that you were able to work together on the show. I am quite intrigued that you were able to make it a fund raiser event for your hall and it was a success. Now to go look at more photos.
Great job
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I plan to start posting some photos of the train display tonight.
Ras, thanks to Elaine's efforts largely (and solely the first year) it's been a fundraiser for five years now; quite a few people come year on year (well, some actually come more than once each year!)
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Looks like a reallly awesome display I like the Egyptian settup the combination of tourists and Egyptians infront of the pyramids is great and I really like the ships in the harbour in front of the old buildings. Your sons idea for the Voice settup looks good as well looks spot on with Kylie up and dancing
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It looks quite wonderfull! There seem to be a good amount of original concepts going on there, and everyone seems to have a good time. :)
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What a lovely exhibition again. I love to take some closer looks at the harbour and the victorian dio's. What an amazing job you did again. Just great!
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Such wonderful ideas for dioramas :love: The country show, modern Egypt and The Voice UK, brilliant!
I'm happy to read that there were even more adults than children visiting ;D
I look forward to more photos, especially of the Victorian seaside. Your custom mansions are so beautiful, and I love how you made the docks :)
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I loved the Voice Uk..... nice seats :love: :love:
Manson
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Sorry I haven't uploaded more photos yet - We have been quite busy with decorators in at home, then I went on holiday for a week. :)
Hope to post them in the coming week all being well!