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....
 

Dazzle Camouflage

Hi-Roller II from Hot Wheels, in a new design.

Sort of a dazzle camouflage paint scheme.

Maybe it prevents the police from estimating your speed correctly.

Very different from the original blue and silver.

Another luxury automobile added to the fleet.
 

Personnel at the Kiss Kiss Club

The Kiss Kiss Club staff wears a uniform that reflects the costume of the band.

Here the white plastic figures have had their red shirts, red hats, and their skin painted.

They all have the same base shape.  I use base shape and color to define certain groups without having to be too obvious.  Your mission Mr. Bond is to meet the man at the bar with a dark green base that is rectangular but rounded at the corners.

Here black shiny pants, shoes and their hair have been painted.  That's about all I paint for most figures.  The bases will be gray to match the concrete on some parts of the floor.

Sandbox sand, or beach sand, also called play sand.  Just plain old sand from Lowes, comes in a big bag for kids to play with.

For a couple years I have been gathering spice jars to put Woodland Scenics products into, and of course, play sand.

This young lady is the fire walker entertainment at the Kiss Kiss Club.  She wears her gold bikini as seen in the movie, except my paint brush is too big to paint it as small as it is in the movie!  The beach sand is going to be glued to a small base and painted so she can do her fire walking act.
 

Restroom Construction

In the James Bond movie Thunderball, he has been shot in the leg and he goes into the Kiss Kiss Club. 

There he visits the men's room to tend to his wound.

So I am taking one of my tiki bar buildings and converting it into the restrooms.

Taking some little strips of plastic and a rectangle of plastic to make the two doors.  Top piece has been glued together to make it double thick.

My daughter made me a Kiss Kiss poster that she designed based on the one in the movie.  The aluminum foil is for mixing 5 minute epoxy on.

I used a thick piece of sheet plastic to cover the opening in the tiki bar piece, glued on with the 5 minute epoxy.  Mock up of the doors before final trimming.

Glued together, on the the poster I used temporary glue for the look.  The poster is too big and I am going to have to resize it.  1/72nd scale figure for scale.  Still needs to be painted.