History marches in miniature in Long Island man's home

Richard Schuster played with toy soldiers when he was a kid, but it wasn't until retirement that he began creating his elaborate historical dioramas. Pikes, crossbows, broadswords, muskets, artillery and even helicopters — hanging from the ceiling — merge into a technological timeline of slaughter in his Syosset home. Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr./J. Conrad Williams, Jr.