Roman Limes watchtower in progress

[klausbrazil]

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 or for a present-day fantasy diorama of civil war coming to a historic open air museum. By the way: The entrance of these watchtowers was in the middle floor. The towers were up to 5 meters wide and 10 meters high and around 200 b.c. they were plastered and whitened with lime.

Here is the link:

http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b2/Klausmerkel/Roemischer Limesturm 1_18/

 

[Keenan]

That's some undertaking. Very very cool!

 

[K-Tiger]

Three years of Latin, so I'm taking great interest in this one.

 

[Charade]

Novel idea, and it looks like you're off to a phenomenal start. Keep us updated.

 

[Rick]

Great job on the roof.

Is this foam? Hard to see on BlackBerry.

If so how did you do outside corners.

This could make a great sniper nest for Low Light.

 

[Tracker]

that is rock'n i always had and interest in Ancient Rome

I've be wanting to get some of the AGES OF ACTION ROMAN LEGIONARY FIGURE but most places have them for too high of a price

http://smalljoes.com/cgi-bin/pgen.cgi?Stage=10&CatId=47&Item=AOAROMANL

 

[K-Tiger]

Ouch, why so expensive, I wonder?


Bbi did a less-than-articulated set of Romans, too. I really want to get the Signifer, as he comes with a cavalry mask.

 

[klausbrazil]

Great job on the roof.

Is this foam? Hard to see on BlackBerry.

If so how did you do outside corners.

This could make a great sniper nest for Low Light.

No foam used. The walls are cardboard glued on a wooden structure. Than I put some thin layer of acrylic paste on top of the cardboard in order to fill gaps and to increase stability. After that I painted it with (acrylic, water based). The floors are wood, as well as the roof.

 

[klausbrazil]

that is rock'n i always had and interest in Ancient Rome

I've be wanting to get some of the AGES OF ACTION ROMAN LEGIONARY FIGURE but most places have them for too high of a price

http://smalljoes.com/cgi-bin/pgen.cgi?Stage=10&CatId=47&Item=AOAROMANL

These towers were manned by eight legionnaires and that indeed represents some problem because so far I have only two decent figures. The ones in the pictures are from the French manufacturer Papo. I bought them for Euro 5 each in my last visit to the re-built Roman castle Saalburg in the north of Frankfurt. Bullyland also had some Roman soldiers, at least some years ago. Price also around Euro 4-5.They are not sold as 1:18 scale but they are. Roman legionnaires had an average size of only 1,50 meters (less than 5 ft.). I still have some Chinese made figures sold about 15 years ago as "Cesar Warriors". Unfortunately they are pure shit: Something between Roman, Greek and fantasy. perhaps I get to modify one or another. One more difficulty will be that Roman armor changed considerably over the centuries. It will be some kind of challenge to put together that platoon.

 

[Fled74]

Looking very good so far!

 

[Meddatron]

Dude, very outstanding start to this project. I would not have been able to tell that it was a cardboard walls at all. you did an outstanding job covering that up. I love the wood roof as well.