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.
 

Dance Floor

This blue and white marble looking thing is a bit of plastic with glue on the back designed to be used as a wall covering, sort of a peel and stick wallpaper.

This little bit of acrylic plastic sheet, like the wall paper is from Dollar Tree.

This plastic is tile from Evergreen Plastic.  I cut the acrylic rectangle into a square the size of the outer edge of the white tile.

Then I cut a square of wall paper the size of the white plastic, using the outer edge of the plastic as a straight edge.

Next, I cut out the inside of the blue wallpaper using the white plastic as a straight edge guide for my  X-Acto knife.

Then the square of acrylic got painted a glossy red.  

Fire walker girl on dance floor with fire with the band in the background.

 

Overhead view showing the edge of the dance floor.  Paint is on the underside of the clear dance floor to make it look very glossy.

Audience of the Kiss Kiss Club watching the fire walking show.

 

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.
 

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.
 

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.