Sprawling over 40 sq.m. in his basement in the village of Schaffen, 70 km (40 miles) northeast of Waterloo, the 1/1,000-scale model and its 3,000 handpainted soldiers had occupied Smout since 1975, ...
Sprawling over 40 sq.m. (20 foot square) in his basement in the village of Schaffen, 70 km (40 miles) northeast of Waterloo, the 1/1,000-scale model and its 3,000 handpainted soldiers had occupied ...
SCHAFFEN, Belgium (Reuters) - "The nearest run thing": like the battle itself in Wellington's pithy verdict, Willy Smout's epic model of the field of Waterloo combines a lifetime of effort with a race ...