HISS

Evil henchmen with their tank.

This is a Hot Wheels version of the GI Joe Cobra HISS tank.

These came out decades ago in about 70mm size as plastic toys.

Now it is a 1/64th scale Hot Wheels.

Hasbro made a large collection of vehicles for Cobra and their GI Joe figures.

Impressive from the front side.

An unusual and interesting vehicle.
 

Modern Russian Tanks and Vehicles

Russian soldier with ARV.

More Russian troops with BMP.

A quiet, peaceful little cluster of houses.

With an upgraded tank.

Upgraded tank with dozer.

 

Buildings and AFVs

This is an SDV T72 tank based armored recovery vehicle in HO scale.

I showed the kit being built a while ago, but it's finished now.

 I think it turned out well, despite some rather vague instructions.

The figure is an Orion Modern Russian Federal soldier circa 2001.

A few more SDV models with two identical dollar store houses, painted differently, Marx toys trees.

Painting Dollar Store Buildings

I used the Ludus Bellum Luxury Acrylic Paint Starter Set to paint up a couple dollar store buildings.

They come partially painted, but mostly the roof shingles are all that is left of the original colors.

Much of the buildings are unpainted, particularly the sides.  I usually paint the windows gloss black, as seen here.

The color coverage is excellent, big flat open spaces show up poorly if the paint is not good.  Any errors are mine as I am not a great painter.

I did do some dry brushing over the original dark wood, and shingles and did some touch up as well.  I think this is a good set of paint.