From Plan to Plinth: Model Making for all - The Green Howards Museum

An incredibly detailed diorama marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day is on display at The Green Howards Museum, Richmond, North Yorkshire, created by one of the country’s most promising young model makers, as part of a free exhibition from Thursday 29th May 2025.

15-year-old Ted, the youngest member of the North Riding Scale Model Club, built the diorama to commemorate the role of the 6th and 7th Battalion, Green Howards on 7th June 1944 —the day after D-Day. The scene includes a striking model of CSM Stanley Hollis VC, the only soldier awarded the Victoria Cross on D-Day and a key figure featured in the museum’s D-Day 80th anniversary exhibition last year.

Ted’s model was recently exhibited at the prestigious National Scale Model Show in Telford, where he was named Junior National Champion by the International Plastic Modellers’ Society (IPMS), a national organisation with over 4,000 members across the UK.

Ted began building Warhammer models at the age of 11 and founded a Warhammer club at his school; Stokesley School in Year 8. His growing interest in historical military models led him to recreate scenes from different periods, and he is currently working on British Infantry soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815).

For those inspired by Ted’s work, this is a fantastic opportunity to see a junior champion’s artistry up close, and to learn more about a hobby that’s as much about creativity and community as it is about history.