Motorcycles

The old Soviet Union used to have a lot of motorcycles in their motorized units.

They operated in small units and often were employed as messengers.  In the nuclear battlefield radios might not always work so motorcycles were employed for that purpose.

I have been gluing these Roskopf motorcycles onto Evergreen Scale Models item number 4504 Tile using the Model Master Liquid Cement.

They are going to be painted with Rust-Oleum deep forest green soon.
 

Snow Animals

Amazon has a lot of photo boxes.  They are cardboard or plastic boxes with the front and side open.

They often come with animals, terrain, and other accessories to allow you to do small set ups for your amusement or photography.

This one is an Arctic animals set.

It comes with removable base and side photos.

And a host of other bits in various scales.  1/32nd scale wolf and a 1/72nd scale igloo.

1/24th scale fox and 1/48th scale reindeer. 
 

More Reef Work

I tried something else for more three dimensional settings.

I rolled a bit of the coral reef border around itself and used it as a stand alone with the previous pieces.

The lobster liked it right away.

The crustacean was a bit crabby about it.

The border is over 14 inches long before it repeats the image.

Better still, the border is double sided and has a totally different, but similar print on the back side.

I am hoping to use this for James Bond, Thunderball type set ups, sunken ships, treasure, oil pipelines, U-boat adventures.  I think this will work for my purposes.
 

Underwater

I got some bulletin board edge paper from Amazon.  Since I have a lot of mini-submarines and a few large ones it seemed a good idea to work on ways to depict underwater scenes.

I took a few of my undersea plants and placed them in a photo box with a sky background and the coral.

I think the sky works okay as very clear, tropical water.

Note the nautilus, sea turtle and crab.

Here with a lobster.  I am trying for something that looks okay, does not take up too much room, is cheap, durable and will work with several scales.