Keeping the project largely between family members, Smout has started to share his work with neighbors and friends. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
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 against time to pull through at the last.
Forty years in the making, the Belgian engineer realised a couple of years ago that his diorama of the historic battlefield outside Brussels might still be incomplete by the time of the last great commemoration he would see -- next month's 200th anniversary of the day that changed Europe's history forever.
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