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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 recognized that model as a 1953 Chevrolet pickup from the Spanish manufacturer Mira that went belly-up several years ago. More than 10 years ago I purchased the same model. In case you would like to give your model some tropical touch, I would like to present an idea: Such pickup easily can be...

That is an absolutely amazing and phantastic work of detailing. The same counts for the other examples you posted.

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...

That is a great piece of work you have done with that vehicle. As you mention the name "corps" in the title I suppose that it happens to be a vehicle from the manufacturer Lanard. I will also try to find one because this car seems to be very appropriate for customization.

It looks realy phantastic. You are building up a great collection with your customized vehicles. As far as I know the subject is called "alternate history" which means a kind of science fiction where history takes a different path. Unfortunately in Brazil this AT AT costs about US$ 400 which is...

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 have tried to attach a picture with the complete tank from the toy manufacturer Lanard.

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/

Great detailing and painting work.

Thanks to all for your replies. In fact I took several weeks to make it because I made it with interruptions. In the process of the building there were also several problems to solve. One for example was how to fix the upper wings until the glue was hard. It took two attempts to get the plane...

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...

Some time ago I made a large diorama of a Cobra hangar with a port for boats close by. The diorama was 5 meters wide (ca. 15 ft.). You can find the pictures following the link below. One important observation: In Brazil you almost do not get any acessories for dioramas and even GI Joe figures...

Some time ago I made the airplane after having watched the movie. It is entirely scratch-built, mainly made of wood. It is based mainly on pictures and measures I found on the internet. The fotos you can find under the user klausmerkel in photobucket...