Afrika Korp Command Post

Vehicles are HO 1/87 scale.

Figures are 1/72nd scale from Revell and Airfix, Afrika Korps sets.

The trees are from Amazon as is the background.

The sand is beach sand and playground sand.  Most home improvement stores sell it in huge bags.

Motorcycles are from Grip / Eadai / Arii in 1/76 scale.

It makes a nice little set up.

I like to have a command post for at least every battalion or above.
 

Afrika Korps

DAK camp in the desert.

Panzer IV and a few infantry.

Command halftrack with radio antenna.

And a medium size tent in the shade of the trees.

The guard at the door to the tent command post.
 

Cold War Soviet Truck Repair

The Louie the Lilac truck is not all I have been working on.

A number of my Cold War era, 40 year old trucks have become unbonded.  The cabs and spare tires are falling off.

So I have to glue them back on.  I am not painting the green trucks at this time, just repairing them.  I figure they are usable in green plastic, but the yellow, blue, and brown ones have to be repainted.

Here they are in their new home.  Safe and sound.

A total of over 100 painted vehicles in this two boxes.  And these are just two boxes.
 

Trash Truck and Lilac

The tactical trash truck of the Soviet Union.

I have been painting and converting many Cold War era Soviet Vehicles.

The trash truck door opens.  Exciting play for kids everywhere.

I had a bunch of the trash trucks, and I pulled the bin off of one of them, added a bit of styrene to make a flat bed truck and painted lilac color.

Batman 66 Villain Louie the Lilac, Milton Berle, had one in his story arc on the TV show.