Sheds

After sitting in a stack of parts in my driveway for nine years, my two sheds are finally together.

Three of our kids decided to visit and naturally I put them to work on an old fashioned barn raising.  These two shed served for at least ten years in California mounted on a concrete pad.  Here they will sit on graded gravel in the wind and the snow.  They are made by Lifetime and they are terrific.

I am placing only replaceable items into the sheds.  So in the event of catastrophe the contents can be replace by insurance money.  Not the case with many hobby items.

The first items are my collection of miniature trees.  All mounted on sheets of plastic or on old CDs.  Fully painted, flocks, and well cared for.  All very tidy.

Each box is labeled with the contents.  It's not hoarding if the boxes are labeled. 

An insect catching sticky pad and a moisture trap on the shelf it insure the integrity of the collection.  The shed walls and roofs have been reinforced with metal straps to hold the plastic pieces together, the floor has been nailed to the ground with 10 inch nails.  The seams have been sealed with foam or glue to prevent leakage and stop insects from gaining entry.

Each shed has a wasp trap and flying insect trap to catch flying bugs.

The interior of each box has a moisture absorbing packet to further protect the contents.  Both sheds are right outside my window and I inspect the exterior at least twice a day.  They sit under a porch light.

I needed a few extra screws to finish putting them together and a quick call to Lifetime and a very kind lady sent me 100 metal screws free of charge, despite the sheds being years out of warranty.  Excellent customer service.  I highly recommend their products.  Other than being a customer I don't have any connection with the company.

https://www.lifetime.com/storage-sheds  
 

Cat Car

Hot Wheels Blvd. Brusier, as part of their 2026 Batman collection 5 pack.

It has an excellent paint job as a Catwoman car.

This car has been around since 2011 and has a spare tire molded in the back that is not the same wheel as is on the car.

This is one way that Hot Wheels can recycle an old car into something new.

Since I have three Catwoman figures, having an additional Catwoman car is a good idea.

It is a good looking car, sort of a Camero or Firebird in style.

Batman vs Catwoman!
 

More Police Figures

Roco Minitanks US tank commanders and cheap plastic figures.

Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department required mandatory helmet wearing for several years in the 1980s and it looks a lot like the tanker helmet.  So I am doing head swaps for these guys.  You can also see a Cold M1919 machine gun with a white barrel.  It is a replacement barrel for an air cooled machine gun barrel that had broken off.

I am working on making bases for my police figures.

This is my standard figure basing plastic for basing figures.

The plastic is trimmed into pieces with 2 x 3 squares making a small rectangle.

Sometimes I leave them with sharp corners or smooth the corners down.

This is the bottom half of a WWII German figure by Odemars.  

Uniforms like this were very common in the US for polices, particularly those who rode on motorcycles.

So I switched his head with the head of an Airfix WWI British soldier.

The original arm position is at a low ready, but I moved the arm to more of a shooting pose.

These will become motorcycle police.  From 1910 to after WWII motorcycle police were very common because motorcycles were less expensive than automobiles and some cities fielded large fleets of them.
 

Airfix WWI American Army

I don't like to waste anything, so I gathered up a bunch of the dead guys from the Airfix WWI American Infantry set.

I took some pins from lego type bricks, a couple bits of wire and a some excess sheet plastic.  It made a nice creeper for these figures to lay down on.

So here is the soldier working on a Roco 2 1/2 ton army truck.

Here are some of my WWI British Infantry that I am going to use for police.  It was not unusual for American police to have machine guns in their inventory as far back as there have been machine guns!

I am using cheap styrene plastic civilian figures as police, I swap the heads with Airfix WWI British Infantry because their caps are similar to police hats that US police used for about 100 years.

 My plan is to have .50 caliber US machine guns, M2, .30 caliber Colt, Marlin, and M1919 Colt machine guns.  Also the Thompson, M1 carbine, and the M60 machine gun.  I have confirmed that all of these, except the M60, have certainly been used by US police forces.