Lollypop

From the doll house miniature section of Hobby Lobby.

I plan on using them for my Wizard of Oz Munchkins.

These are about 15mm size figures.

They look pretty good size wise.

They are in nice colors.

I think they will help to make my Oz group a colorful success.
 

Filament Fighters & Various Stuff

Rust-Oleum Flat White Primer.  I get it at Wal-Mart and Lowes.

Filament Fighters German WWII truck in HO scale.  I get them from Fidelis Models.

https://fidelismodels.com/collections/3d-filament-fighters-models

Filament Fighters Italian primer mover.

 

Hungarian tank by Railroad Connections.  3D printed but not a great model.

German heavy halftrack, 3D printed.

Filament Fighters 3D printed Hungarian tank, note the better detail with the wheels.

Hungarian tank turret.  I make these boards with large and small holes in them to hold tank turrets and other parts so they can be painted without the parts moving around.

Tank turret.

Resin cast trucks.

More resin cast trucks I have had these for decades but they needs wheels and assembly.
 

Several Things

James Bond fights a dangerous enemy over the bonnet of his high performance sports car.

Using paint remover to strip paint.  I put the paint remover into an old glass jar and then dunk die cast models into it so they can soak the paint off.  It allows me to reuse the paint remover.  Note also the toothbrush, and the plastic tray.

Paint remover in the jar.

Hobby Lobby pickup trucks that have been soaking in the paint remover.  They previously had the Christmas tree removed.

I used these brushes to remove the paint and glitter.

Water in a catsup bottle to rinse off the paint remover.

Painting surface after primer was sprayed on a Batmobile body.
 

COL Gumm

My friend Clarence was kind enough to send me a few die cast metal vehicles.  One of them is this truck.  It was painted a very dark glossy green.  I stripped the paint and now I am going to repaint it.  The plastic windshield got melted in the paint remover.  So I will have to replace it somehow.

Rust-Oleum 2X paint is both a paint and a primer.  Usually I prefer to use gray or white primer and then over paint with whatever color I want the model to be.  Since I am going to paint this model in pink, and the model is a rather uniform color I plan on just painting it in Gloss Pink rather than prime it first.

The cab, not a very realistic military truck cab, but perfect for a truck for COL Gumm.

The truck bed and the canopy.  In the Batman 66 comic book series, the villain, General Gumm, (in the TV series, Colonel Gumm) has a 2 1/2 ton size truck that looks almost exactly like this model.  The canopy will be flat white.  Gumm works for a trading stamp company, printing the trading stamps, as a cover for his postage stamp counterfeiting operation.