The Mangonel

This is the last of my siege machines model. At the same 1/32 scale and completely funcitonal. These kinds of catapults used a fixed counterweight. Unlike the Trebuchets, which used…

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The Roman Onager

This time a fully functional Roman Onager model. The Onager itself was made back in 2015, but I haven`t found the time to make the rest of the diorama until…

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The history of the catapults

The first mangonel ballistae used a fixed counterweight at one end of the mast, moving the load from a horizontal to a vertical position. This eventually caused the load to…

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The trebuchet

This is one of the first dioramas I made back in 2013. Fully functional trebuchet made of wood, metal, pins and strings among other materials. These siege machines were dated…

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The Berger guillotine

This project took me two years of intermitent work, exactly from 2016 to 2018. The scene is based on the execution of a criminal by Anatoile Deibler using a Berger…

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The history of the Berger guillotine

Mounting the gouillotine (fallbeil) for Grete Beier's execution on July 23, 1908 Previous guillotines models, such as the Schmidt guillotine model, were quite basic devices that, among other things, suffered…

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