article_snippet.sent: Museum curator Vere Hayes said: 'There are so many vignettes within the diorama. '
article_snippet.sent: Spruced up: These images show how the figures were covered in dust before the figures recent restoration .
article_snippet.sent: Conservationists Kelvin used a vacuum cleaner to help remove the grime which had built up .
article_snippet.sent: Conservationists Kelvin Mary Thatcher spent five months cleaning the figures on the diorama, and glued back together scores of severed limbs, lost swords and displaced cannonballs.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Hayes added: 'the diorama was made in the 1970s by Valhalla Models and acquired by the museum in the 1980s.
article_snippet.sent: But the diorama never had a top put on the diorama so has got extremely dusty over the years. '
article_snippet.sent: Conservationists Kelvin Mary Thatcher took the diorama apart in 16 sections and took four sections at a time back to Conservationists Kelvin home in Norfolk where Conservationists Kelvin cleaned each individual figure using an air hose and a vacuum cleaner. '
article_snippet.sent: Conservationists Kelvin have done a fantastic job and it is great to be able to see the incredible detail so clearly.'