'Every single figure has been hand-painted.' Meet the models and the model makers at the heart of a new exhibition of historical scenes to be installed at Hyde Park Barracks.
but the purpose behind these meticulous models is certainly not fictional.
Some of the historic models at Modelwork to be installed in Hyde Park Barracks. 'Every single figure has been hand-painted.'Another of the nine models depicts St James's Church under construction next to the barracks with convict labourers hanging precariously from the steeple. We even journey out of town to Bathurst and the scene of a massacre, where a settler had given potatoes to some Indigenous locals. When they came back the next day to for more, the settler gathered some friends and turned the guns on them.
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