Bits and Pieces

Johnny Lightening and Hot Wheels from my Horror Collection.  Halloween is approaching so it is time to start looking for horror stuff.  I did find a few mummy figures at Dollar General, small 54mm size.

My Roco upgrade project has picked up steam as the Kiss Kiss Club project has been winding down.  Here I am painting wheels, windshields, and tires and seats and tarps on some trucks.  The Roco 37mm anti-tank gun is getting put back together and about 2/3rds are getting mounted on bases.

Kiss Kiss Club with all the major parts put together.  The base will be replaced with a slightly larger one, there will be more palm trees an foliage, and maybe a few dancing people.

Dance floor with the dancing girl doing her fire walking routine. 

Hot coals ready for the fire walking.  Actually a pile of sand.  I placed a washer over a bit of styrene plastic and poured sand into the hole.  Then dropped very liquid super glue onto the sand as I remove the washer.  Then I painted the sand using red, orange, and yellow transparent colors by Tamiya.
 

Rhedosaurus Body

The Rhedosaurus body is very well cast.

1/72nd scale police officer for size.

Head and lower jaw for fit.  Looks good.

Lower Jaw alone.

Look at the size of the tongue, it's as big as the cop!

In the movie a New York City police officer fires his service revolver at the monster as he advances towards the beast.  Sadly, the monster eats him alive.  However, the officer bought time for civilians to make their escape.  He died while he protected the citizens of the city he had sworn to protect.

This figure is shown here for scale in small honor of those real police who face "monsters" every day at their work, at peril of their own lives.

Back to the model, head, tongue and lower jaw together in a test fit.

Pretty scary really.
 

Rhedosaurus Parts

The monster was very well packaged, although the exterior box was crushed, the model box and the model are in perfect condition.  It also arrived a couple days early.

The instruction manual is one sheet of paper, but the kit seems pretty straightforward.

It's made by a company called Star Ace, which I never heard of before, but they seem to make lot of monster kits.  This is a limited edition of 400.  I only need one. 

The exterior box was in rough shape.

The interior was well packaged and there was no damage to the box or the model thanks to plenty of bubble wrap. 

  

With the bubble wrap removed you can see the parts of the model. 

 The individual parts are sealed in plastic.

I guess Rhedosaurus meat spoils easily so they have to be packaged like this.  The parts all seem flash free and pretty sturdy. 

 

 

I don't really know what these parts are supposed to be.  Maybe eyes?  

 

 

Body, jaw and tongue.  

  

 

The main body part.  I think they did a good job of designing the model, full pieces rather than body and leg halves which would make the model much harder to put together. 

The Beast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtxijEqm-b4  The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is one of my favorite monster movies ever.  And I have seen about most of them!

The Rhedosaurus is a very cool monster, sort of a dragon, but sort of a tyrannosaurus combined.

He is older than Godzilla and is a stop motion monster, so the animation is excellent.

I first saw this movie probably 60 years ago on television.

This kit came by mail order through Amazon, from Japan.

The monster is 30cm tall, which is a foot high.  So it's a nice size for 1/72nd scale wargames.
 

Flocking Stuff

 

These are various types of ground cover that I use for flocking terrain and figure or vehicle bases.

Blended turf, Green blend is my go-to turf for flocking bases.

I use several brands but the Woodland Scenics is my favorite.

This is the big storage box for it.

MRS Bunkermeister gave me spice containers as they were emptied and I got enough of them that I transferred all my flocking into new containers.

I have a shelf on a book case that will store all these so that I can easily find them.

Kiss Kiss Bar

I got this little building from Dollar Tree a couple years ago.

The poster was done by my daughter, a professional artist.

I used a marker pen to make this sign.

Here are some bar seats, lego pins cut off the bricks and with a little bit of plastic in between.

A lady in a gold dress and a drunk in a hat at the bar.  Male and female bar tenders.

Much of the interior of the bar is a picture printed out and glued inside.
 

Racing French Manufacture but Italian Style

Bugatti Type 59 sports and racing car, made in France in the 1930's.

Look at the paint job on those little details and the control rod in silver is a separate piece.

Very nice interior, in real life the car was a two seater, but this version has an insert over the passenger side for better aerodynamics when racing.

Official Bugatti blue jacket.

Strangely this model is made in China.  Few Hot Wheels seem to be made there and I was surprised to see this one was made there.

1/72nd scale standing figure and a test fit of a 1/72nd scale seated figure, and he fit perfectly without any modifications!

Two figures and two cars.