The Castle of the Wizard

The Wizard releases his giant dragon out the door of his castle.

I got some photo background and a set of lizards on Amazon recently.

So I figured I would do some test runs to see how they work with my existing collection.

The surface is indoor / outdoor carpet.

The castle is Sherwood Castle from Airfix, likely 55 years old.  The Wizard is Caesar Miniatures.
 

Bits and Pieces

Johnny Cloud, a DC character, Navajo Indian, used to see visions of an Indian brave riding a horse in the sky.  He was in the US Army Air Force in WWII, so I made this vision out of translucent plastic to use when he has those visions in a game.  It has a hook on the top at the balance point so I can suspend it from above.

Cold War Soviet truck.  It looks gray in this photo but it is actually the dark green in the photo below.  This is an odd paint because even in real life it appears to be gray like this.

Trucks getting their wheels painted, note the window frame has been painted, compared to the photo above this one.

Canopy on, wheels painted, looks good enough for me.

I got a couple sets of lizards recently and I took their photo and asked Google AI to identify each lizard.  This is the results as near as I can figure out.  I know several of them are correct and I think a couple of them may be a little off.  Still I think it is a hard task for the computer to identify a real lizard based on a toy lizard.

I have two of these sets and they will be part of my forthcoming Astron Delta project.

 

Sea Creatures Doing Sea Creature Stuff

Here is a little set up with a dolphin playing with a sea lion, as sea turtle leaves the sandbar.  Some sea glass for extra color and texture.

Shark on the prowl, not looking for star fish.

Octopus and sperm whale locked in mortal combat.

Combat continues.

Big bite to the head.

Hammer head cruises the shallows.

A ray moves from sand to plant.

Blue whale moves towards the surface.

The whole scene together.

Blue whale dancing in the background.

The set came with a little, thin, string that can be used to hang animals like the two whales here.
 

Sea Dioramas, Animals and Accessories

Here are four of the toys, you can see the huge difference in scale between the whales and the other animals.

The octopus and sperm whale work well together and look pretty cool.

Shark and octopus together is pretty cool too.

Octopus and big starfish is interesting, octopus will eat starfish, but not often.

Hammerhead shark and a ray.  I think it is a sting ray but I am not certain.

Sea lion with the two plants that come with the set.  The bases are kind of weird they look like they should be weighted and put at the bottom of a fish tank.  They look like alien plants to me.

The diorama set comes with a little bag of sea glass.  Sea glass is glass that has been worked on by the action of the water and the sand.  Over time it gets smooth and opaque.

A bag of sand, useful for creating a sea floor.