7 June - More Installation

Day two of the installation progress... this was a big day, as the long hanging banners depicting San Carlos Water were being installed. These banners provide a backdrop behind the Sea Harrier on the plinth, which will give an extra wow-factor to anyone entering the hall from the top gallery. Combined with the big Falklands30 logo on the front of the plinth, this panorama (with the Harrier appearing to 'fly' into it) will really set the scene and draw people in.

Also being installed were some foamex boards, some of them inlaid into display cases. The next process is to deliver the remaining foamex panels, wedge stands for directional signage and the aluminium aircraft information boards...

The first of the big banners going up

The San Carlos Water banner panorama taking shape

A foamex aircraft information board 

Some of the inlaid foamex panels waiting for installation

panels for the Royal Marines display case waiting to go in

Installation starts on the foamex for the Royal Marines display case

One of the information boards waiting to go up. This board commemorates the casualties of the conflict

The same board in situ - inlaid into the side of an exhibition case

Vinyl Wallpaper

There are five walls within the exhibition space which are going to be covered with a vinyl wallpaper, designed to comprise different photos about the Falklands Conflict. The walls will then host reminiscence and information boards. The five wall areas are: Personnel, Families, Fort Austin (featuring a special exhibit), Map and Falkland Islands (the largest of the walls). Like the Harrier Plinth (detailed below), the vinyl wallpapers are applied in stages. The largest wall is over 5m long, the smallest just under 2m. All of them are 2.4m high. Below are some pictures of the team applying the vinyl.

The Personnel wall to the left, and the Family wall going up.

The completed Family wall, with scenes from the Task Force's homecoming, July 1982

The Map background wall, just under the 3m hanging banner, showing the distance travelled by the Task Force to the Falkland Islands - 8,000 miles.

The Personnel wall goes up.

...and the finished product

One of the vinyl rolls for the Falkland Islands wall (5m) waiting to be put up.

The team work on putting up the Falkland Islands wall vinyl.

The Fort Austin wall finished, with vinyl rolls below waiting to go onto the Falkland Islands wall.

Installation Photos

Below are some photos showing the installation of graphics for the exhibitions. First, a fre progress shots of an 8.3m vinyl application to the front of a plinth displaying a Sea Harrier. The application consists of a huge version of the exhibition logo, which will be a striking visual introduction to the exhibition to anyone who approaches from the gallery to Hall 4.

Starting to apply the vinyl.

From above the plinth, at the exit from the museum's Concorde experience

The vinyl is prepared in separate rolls.

Finishing off the vinyl frontage

This is the visual introduction to the exhibition that people will see when they enter Hall 4 from the entrance gallery.