The convention is Aug. 13-15. It is held every 2 years and is small compared to US conventions. The museum in the castle is open most of the year. There are 150 dioramas with about 300,000 soldiers. I recall that the largest has 19,200, and is a siege of the very castle that you are in.
Winchester, England has a 25mm diorama of Waterloo with 22,000 soldiers and 11,000 horses. Austria has a great display at a museum, also, second only to Kulmbach.
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