Ladies and Gents

Kiss Kiss Club LADIES and GENTS room doors.  As they were in the movie, but the movie version had a large Kiss Kiss poster in the middle.  So I am going to have to move the signs to the doors, since the poster won't fit now.  I like the signage on the door better anyway.  I have scaled down some of the parts of the club so it's not too large on the game table.

I glued the restroom signs down with super glue.

Now I am using 5 minute quick-cure epoxy glue to glue down the palm trees that hold the Kiss Kiss sign.

Mix 50/50 and stir it up, I use a Popsicle stick, or sometimes a BBQ skewer. 

Test fitting the ticket booth, palm tree and front entrance on the concrete pad for the Kiss Kiss club.
 

Iron Cross

The Dragon Steiner figure has a highly detailed PPSh submachine gun.  It opens so you can clean it after firing.

I like that Dragon figures hands are made to really hold their weapons well.

The wide variety of patches, and awards is well done, I think.

I have over a dozen WWII German 12 inch soldiers.  Versus about 100 US Army and Navy figures.

I like 1/6th scale figures because of the detail on the figures.

And I like that you can change the pose or alter their equipment.  Same reason I like ring hand figures in 60mm.  Here he is with a helmet rather than the cap.  Cap looks better I think his hair is a little fluffy for the helmet.  I could remove the helmet liner and then it might fit better, but not today.

Here he has a panzerfaust.  Not included in the original set, but available separately, or with other figures.  Recently Fidelis Models opened an ebay store and they were selling off a stash of Dragon 1/6th figures, including a Steiner.  He only had a few so they may even be gone by now, but it might be worth a look if you are interested.  This one is in my collection and is not for sale.

Dragon Models Steiner

Besides GI Joe I also collect several other brands of 1/6th scale figures.

This one is Steiner, from Dragon Models.

He is a WWII German soldier on the Eastern Front in 1943, in Crimea.  

He came well equipped with a Soviet PPSh submachine gun, two magazines, and a stick grenade.

He wears a field cap, and unlike GI Joe, many of the Dragon figures have individual faces.

The tank destruction badge is awarded for the destruction of one tank, he has killed three in close combat.  He has a wide array of other awards.

He carried gas mask canister, map pouch, water bottle and cup, and bread bag, and mess kit.

Much of this would be left behind on patrol, too noisy.  The figure looks a lot like a character from a movie about the Eastern Front.  This figure is long out of production and can be hard to find in good shape.
 

Entrance

The sign is finished!

The ticket booth is nearly done.

Ticket booth fully staffed.

Restrooms in pink, nearly done.  And the entrance itself is done.

The base will be painted concrete color later.

Overview.

I also considered Contact paper in sand design.  Not bad, but no, not for the entrance anyway.

Close up of the sign and entrance and another view of the Contact paper.
 

Signage

I am using some Tim Mee plam trees to hold up the Kiss Kiss Club sign.

The real sign has little lights on it.

So I got some gold and red "jewels" to add to the sign.  The sign letters are plastic, painted red, orange, red for the Kiss Kiss Club.

The jewels are glued to a clear plastic sheet.  I don't know what they are used for in real life.  My wife suggested maybe finger nail decorations.

So using tweezers I peel off one jewels at a time and glue it onto the letter.

I used these tools to drill the holes in the palm tree trunks to support the sign brackets.  Two holes on each palm tree trunk near the top and about an inch down from there.  Line up the sign brackets, and mark the location where the hole needs to be with a marker.  Then using a awl, push a pilot hole into the location.  Then drill a small hole, and a medium hole.

The black bits are the supports for the letters and get pushed into the palm tree trunks to hold up the signage.  In this photo the sign is being supported by extra brackets, the white plastic, while I add the jewels that simulate lights.  You can see the jewels lined up in place near the upper right of the photo.  The word CLUB has already had the jewels applied.  Orange jewels over red paint, and the last S also has red jewels over orange paint.

A still from the James Bond movie Thunderball, showing the Kiss Kiss Club sign and my version below.

Some additional palms I am working on.
 

Entrance

Entrance to the Kiss Kiss Club.

Two ticket sellers and another staff member.

Where is everyone?

They are only 1/2 people because the booth is not hollow.

I glued a very thin piece of plastic to the bottom of a bit of Popsicle stick, painted it black and glued two 1/2 figures to the plastic.

When slid into place it gives the illusion of two figures standing behind the counter in an open area, because it is black, and recessed. See the top photo again for a demonstration of how good it works.
 

Candy Canes and Painting Sticks

Visited Hobby Lobby the other day and they have Christmas stuff out already.  Of course much of it is for crafters and they need a lot of lead time to do their crafty things.  

I like these little plastic sticks with a brush on the end.  It is a good way to apply glue or paint into little recessed areas.  It also provides a pretty good round dot of paint too.

They can be washed and reused like a regular paint brush but only a few times before all the bristles come off.

I got some new paint brushes.  This set comes in big and small point brushes, this is the big point.

My painting skills are not that great so buying expensive brushes, which I have done, does not help much.

I picked up a pack of candy canes.

Shiny plastic with a loop on the top.

I may use them to string a fence line.

I probably won't use barbed wire, but maybe....