Jack and His House

Jack Skellington and his house.

Another Bitty Pop model.  They are fully assembled and ready to go.

This should work for a shanty or with my horror collection.

The box and packaging are all very nice.

The legal stuff.

The Jack figure comes in his own little Pop box.

 The house also is well packaged.  The pumpkins on the front are very nice.

Bitty Town Store

Funko Bitty Pop, a small building with a tiny Funko Pop character.  Retails for $7.

This is a store from The Simpsons cartoon.  With Bart Simpson graffiti on the side of the building.

I hate graffiti in real life and even more so in my miniatures.  But I like Coca Cola so here is the solution for that problem.

I got three of these little buildings.

The Bart figure with the modified building and an original building.

The figures snap into a rectangular hole in the bottom of the floor of the building.

Airfix National Guard Military Police officer keeping an eye out for vandals.

Airfix, Funko Bitty Pop, and Buzz Lightyear head with HO figure legs.  Bart and Buzz will be part of my Junkanoo celebration figures for James Bond.
 

Vans and More Vans

I have been stocking up on Hot Wheels recently.

These little vans are great for my 1938 US Army after conversion.  They will be command vehicles and radio trucks.  In reality they are milk trucks.

They are sort of miniature monster trucks.  So the tires and interior and bottom have to go and get replaced with period tires.  I ignore the interior as the windows are very smokey.  I have not finished any yet but I do have a couple taken apart.

Masters of the Universe vans by Hot Wheels.  This is the Dodge A100 series van, lowered and painted with Masters of the Universe stuff on it.  Hot Wheels has done a few versions of this van, with essentially just different schemes.  

They are $6.50 because the tires are really nice, the paint jobs are very fancy and it's all metal.

The fancy paint will get stripped and I will repaint them light blue.  They will become vans from my 1966 Batman universe.

They served at least six, but likely more, jobs in that show.  All blue, but usually with signage on the sides and sometimes rear.  Many of the villains had them, they were also police and fire department and TV new vans.  I likely will swap out the tires and try to raise the wheels a bit as they are pretty low.

 

Bronze Ant

My friend Clarence sent me this ant.

It maybe the best soft plastic ant I have ever seen.

Nice detail on the feet, and great antenna.

Legs support the body well.  I only got one so I painted him up to use as a statue in front of the Sweetman Myrmecology Institute.

I painted it with Testors Extreme Lacquer.

1/72nd scale figure for size.
 

More Atlantic Maxim Wheel

This poor Dapol civilian figure was cast without legs.

So I took some Atlantic Maxim gun wheel and some Esci hard plastic Maxim gun wheels and made him a wheelchair.

 A few bits of scrap plastic filled the other requirements for construction.

Here at The Bunker, no man is left behind.

Perhaps an old veteran of the Great War out for some sunshine.

Airfix MP pays his respects.

I made a battery of four of these 1 inch Maxim guns.

Here are all the Atlantic Maxim gun projects together.

Two Mountain Guns

Here is another version of the Atlantic Maxim gun converted to a mountain gun.

Barrel bored out for more realism.

Airfix USAAF MP for size.

Note some differences in the carriage, the newer gun is mounted a little higher up.

This is part of my project to clean up some of the spares box and make a few interesting items out of the bits whenever possible.
 

Maxim Cannon

I took one of the 12 pounder Napoleon guns from the Eagle Games cannon and mounted it on the Atlantic Maxim gun carriage.  I drilled out the barrel so it looks a little better.

It makes for an interesting little mountain guns.

Until at least WWII National Guard units and even local militia units and private citizens purchased their own artillery to supplement whatever the Federal Government had or provided to them.

This does not represent any specific gun.

Perhaps it was manufactured locally by local craftsmen to support their state or local militia.

There has been an American tradition of local arms makers all over the nation, even today.  Airfix USAAF MP for size.
 

Mounted 1 Inch Maxim

One inch Maxim gun.

Atlantic Maxim gun and Eagle Games carriage with the 12 pounder Napoleon cut off.

I am sure this is not an exact replica, but it's close enough for my purposes.

I plan on using it for US Army for my War of the Worlds project.  I have a small battery of them.

1898 it will be used by the Regular Army.

1918 it gets used by National Guard.

1938 it belongs to local militia forces.

It's a big gun, here with an Airfix USAAF military policeman.