Hi Rise Buildings

I am testing some techniques for making high rise buildings that can be used on the inside for wargames and role playing games.  Sort of like a doll house with an open back so the figures can be moved around.  Here is a test for a second floor.  Paul Heiser Jeep and Airfix figure or size.

This is cardboard and foamcore board inside a small plastic crate.  The kind you store CDs or Blu-Ray discs inside.

I am testing different types of support for interior floors. I want it all to be modular and easy to take down and set up.

Here is the crate, it is about 7 x 9 x 6 inches deep.
 

Testing the Kiss Kiss Club

The final lay out for the Kiss Kiss Club.

I still have to print and paste posters, glue the band name onto plastic so it will be legible, and put pins in the fences so they stay put.

I also need to make dancing partners for the dance floor.  Henchmen and Moll for Largo to chase Mr. Bond with.

And the final painting of the ground cover.  But I am getting close.  The ground cover paint takes a full day to dry between coats and it will take three, probably.  I have not even started on the dancers, henchmen, moll, or even Mr. Bond.
 

Painting the Crane

Close up of the serrations on the bucket, cut from the Boley Concrete Breaker.

Cleaning up the bucket.

The model disassembled before painting.  I returned the screw to it's location and covered it with tape to keep the threads clear of paint.

This is the "window glass" for the cab.  To remove just push the little pin on the top straight down and it pops right out.  The cut off concrete breaker pin will be saved for some other project, maybe.

Ready for paint.  I paint my models with a spray can, outdoors on bits of thin wood, or even foam core board or cardboard.  Toothpicks, and BBQ skewers are useful to minimize contact with the painting surface so the models don't stick.

I put this skewer inside this little part so it would not blow away under the spray paint pressure.

Typically, I paint one side, wait until this side is dry and then paint the other side.  It has been rainy, hot, and humid recently I have been waiting at least 24 to 48 hours before I flip the models and paint them to make sure they are dry.

Painted by spray paint and ready for touch up, detail painting, and reassembly.

Now it's time for the white crane.

I did them separately because this one will be Testors Olive Drab and the other one was Rust-Oleum Deep Forest Green.  I use the Olive Drab for WWII and the Deep Forest Green for early to mid-Cold War US Army.

Neither of them required primer painting since the colors are very dark and opaque.
 

Crane from Concrete Breaker

I got more of these concrete breakers than I wanted.

So while I was taking them apart to repaint as US Army cranes, I decided to fix that problem.

Nice detail even under the main body.

This breaker will become a bucket.

Cut off the breaker, I used my sprue cutter.

It came off easily as the plastic is soft.

I cut serrations in the end of the bucket with my sprue cutter and trimmed it with my X-Acto knife.