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I have just updated the photobucket album with 11 more pictures of the Cobra fortress under construction. The top of the blue tower is about 1,35 meters above ground. Figures and vehicles are added only for purpose of showing the sizes (see my prior post of October 3, 2012). The gorund floor is...

In our neighborhood there is a reform going on in one of the houses and they threw away an in-built wardrobe. I picked up a lot of plywood, cleaned it all and started a project I wanted to do for a long time: A massive cobra fortress. By following the link attached you can see the work in...

I had an incomplete 1985 GI Joe Mauler tank and an also incomplete firefighter truck from Playmobil. Together with some other parts I made the firefighter tank you can see following that link: http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b2/Klausmerkel/Feuerwehrpanzer%201_18/ The next days I have to...

The Citroen 2CV was nicknamed "Duck" in Germany and it became one of the most famous cars for University students. The entire production of its last years - in the early 80ies - was exported to Germany. Either you loved that car or you hated it because it was somehow complicated, in particular...

No weapons at this time of the year, I thought and made a Christmas crèche at scale 1:18. I fact I have a full set of figures of the holy family vut I could not find them. That is because most of my about 2,800 figures are individually packed in small papar sacks and boxed. Thus, I had to get a...

On September 17 I published a thread showing a watchtower of the Roman Limes around 200 A.D. The respective diorama still is not ready but I have made some progress. I have made the Limes palisades and a Germanic house. In fact the Roman Limes was made of palisades until abround 100-150 A.D. and...

I have some APCs from the toy manufaturer Lanard like the one in the attached picture. Can somebody tell whether that is a pure phantasy car or whether it represents an APC actually produced?

I am not sure whether I put this in the right section of this forum, but I have found the following blog with excerpts of a vintage magazine for technical inventions. It also contains a category "war". I found the blog absolutely amazing and I think it contains some great ideas for making a...

The watchtower is finished. Now I have to build the Limes wall and find some more Roman soldier figures. Most important: I have to find a space for the diorama. The walls of the watchtower are 27 cm wide, the balcony 40 cm and the roof 42 cm. The building is 62 cm high. As you can see in the...

I am building a diorama of a Roman watchtower and a part of the Limes around 200 a.d. All at scale 1:18. The Limes was the fortified eastern frontier between the Roman empire and Germania. The watchtower will be open on one side. Thus I would be able to use it either for a real historic diorama...

Recently I purchased more than 60 DC Infinite Heroes figures in a promotion. One type of figure was Dr. Fate, which I turned into a Spartan Warrior. The custom has errors, e.g. I should have cut off the gloves but I took it as a first attempt. Here are the pictures:

I have found the following data base on the net. It is not complete but I think it provides a good start for research. http://www.sshqdb.com/18/

In my travels to Germany I always by one or another toy from Bruder because they have an excellent quality. Unfortunatly their scale is 1:16, some few items are 1:20. Nevertheless I used them in my 1:18 dioramas as you can see in the following example...

I do not know whether I allocated this topic in the right section because the trebuchet belongs more to the middle ages. It is a real challange to bilt one and the following link shows a simple model I built some years ago...

Jurassic Park is one of my favorite subjects for a diorama. For several months now I have built on a 15 ft. wide diorama. It is finished for now but probably I will modify it within the next months again. I think a diorama never gets realy finished because I always get some ideas on how to...

Some time ago our mixer looked like brokeen and I used the upper part together with an crylic box for 25 DVDs and a plastic cup cut in half to build the following watchtower: http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b2/Klausmerkel/Watchtower%20scale%201_18/ Here is another idea on how to...

Here is the link for pictures of my 10 ft. wide diorama showing an UFO crashsite near a village. The UFO in fact is a Phantom of the GI Joe series which I had bought broken and repaired. The civil cars are mainly die-cast models from Burago, Maisto and others, some of them heavily customized...

I had a turret of a Lanard tank left over. So I used it to customize a Hiss II. I glued a piece of plastic tube beneath the turret in order to have it movable. http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b2/Klausmerkel/Gi%20Joe%20Hiss%20II%20Customized/

Here is the link to another diorama I built about five years ago. I think I used more than 150 figures. The diorama is 3.3 meters (ca. 10 ft.) wide. The houses I made of wood which I weathered before. The awe striker of the bandids is customized. It has got a Ferrari F 50 motor from Maisto. The...

Some time ago I bought a damaged Ferrari GTO 1962 from Burago. I added missing wheels, re-painted parts and added some equipment. Unfortunately, action figures normally do not fit into die cast models. The reasons are the following: In real cars the seats are flexible. If you sit down, you sink...