More Mummy Business

Hatchets, or Tomahawks?

At attention.  Or in the mummy case.

Sword play.

Ax man.

SDS made a set of movie monsters, this one with the oval base is their mummy.  He is similar in size but much more chunky.  

But the SDS figure suffers from only coming in one pose.

Godzilla, Frankenstein, Mummy, and Creature from the Black Lagoon SDS style for comparison with their other figures, all about 1/32nd scale - 54mm.

SDS also did a line of humans vs aliens.  They are sort of 1950s teenagers, here with some of the mummies from Dollar General.

60mm Tim Mee figures, with the SDS teenagers and Dollar General mummies.  Could be the start of a low budget 1950s horror movie!

Knights and Iron Ace

There is a forgotten comic book character called Iron Ace.  A WWII British RAF pilot who takes on the armor of Charlemagne to fight invaders.  One of many enemies he fights is a giant Nazi robot called Black Mail. 

Here is a partial page for the battle between Iron Ace and Black Mail.

Noted Toy Soldier Enthusiast Billy Hill sent me some magnificent Armored Knights when I asked him about what would work for Black Mail.  Thank you Billy Hill for your kind gift.  They are very action packed figures, molded in plastic.

I painted one of each pose in turquoise and the other in magenta.  Then a couple go overs with the black wash to bring out more detail and look like the knight in the comic.

Not sure what I will do with all these figures, but I suspect maybe Black Mail will be one of many enemy robot soldiers, or perhaps the Allies developed their own in a different color.  Or maybe use these as stand alone figures against dragons or something.

One guy was missing his sword so I gave him a hammer.

Most of my super hero figures get a black base that is a triangle, quadrilateral, or hexagon.

I think these are very nice figures.

Thanks again to Billy Hill for making this possible!

The 1/72nd scale figure here is a Caesar Miniatures European Knight figure, with a head swap to a closed helmet.  He has been painted metallic blue.  Since this photo Iron Ace got a gold wash and looks even better.  All of the large knight figures got the dip into an acrylic floor wax to make them shine and to make their paint jobs more durable. It seemed to work very well, it's the first time I have used it.  It's a product called Quick Shine.

 

Bat Boat

New Hot Wheels Bat Boat.

Hot Wheels made one before but it was 1/50th scale and this one is the more typical Hot Wheels size of 1/64th scale.

The larger boat comes with a trailer and has a full hull.  This one is on wheels.

It sits nicely on the table.

A little rise up at the bow.

No figures inside, but I will likely fix that eventually.

Three wheels.

The new boat is also darker.  I am hoping to get a couple more because I would like to repaint one to better match the Batmobile color scheme.  No luck so far.
 

Mummy Army

Mummy Army from Dollar General.

8 of them for $1.  So cheaper than Dollar Tree for some items!

These sold out pretty quickly at the Dollar General stores I frequent.  But I did get a few bags.

I don't do much horror or ancient but these seemed too good a value to pass by.

Poses are pretty good, I think.  

I know almost nothing about ancient Egyptian weapons but I doubt these are very authentic.  On the other hand, what kinds of weapons do reanimated mummy's carry?
 

Paint and Organization

These are the most common liquid paints in my collection, Tamiya acrylic paints.

I like that they have a wide range of military colors, and clean up with water.  Although I use their paint thinner to clean the brush after it has been water cleaned.

Naturally the State of California has a mandatory warning label on them because leftists don't like you to have fun.

Because the tiny warnings on the side of the jar are not enough.

Testors are my oldest continuous use paints.  I probably first got them in abut 1965.

These are enamel and require paint thinner for clean up.  

The Flat Green, 1164 is my standard WWII US Army canvas color.  Although not all that accurate for the job, when I started using it at age ten it seemed okay to me.  I kept using it rather than change so the Army would be uniform, that seemed more important than being right.  Not unlike the real army.

1165 Flat Olive is my WWII US Army color and the jar paint is a perfect match to the spray paint.  And it has matched perfectly for 60 years!  I have used enough of this stuff to not only paint my whole house, but probably pay for it as well.

It looks pretty nice on this Paul Heiser Sherman tank with Aunt Jemima mine roller.

I put little stickers on the lids of these paint bottles.  The serial number tells me the contents of the jar, after 50 years you get to recognize these things.  The serial number and the name of the color tell me the jar has been opened.  I store my paints inside drawer and I want to be able to see them from above and recognize what has been opened.

The Tamiya paints have a jar lid in the color of the paint.  And so do the Gunze Sangyo paint on the right.  Open jars get a black marker O around the rim to signify an open jar.  Some paints that have a special purpose get a sticker with extra data.  Gunze Sangyo paint in number 302 is the paint I use when I do flocking, either as a base color or as a touch up color.  It's also the same color as Imex and Revell US Army WWII troops and Korean War troops.  So I use it when other figures are added to those so they look uniform.  That's important because most of my armies are composed of units of troops of a single color.
 

Wooden Plastic Car

 

 Long Bloc.

 

It's a very plain vehicle.

It is supposed to exhibit a wooden toy car esthetic.  

Don't know what the C is for.

 Very clean lines.

Airfix MP for size, 1/72nd scale.
 

Long Bloc

Cool custom car from Hot Wheels.

Long Bloc, likely will belong to some gangsters in my seedy part of town.

The Hot Wheels legal stuff.

Unique vehicle in that there is no windshield nor front pillar.

Very plain front end.

Driver and passenger are sort of a couple domes.