Foam Truck

Evil henchmen with their HISS tank.

They also have this vehicle, the Matchbox Hardnose.

It is an airport rescue vehicle, a fire truck designed to spray foam on burning planes.

Matchbox has issued it several times in a bunch of versions.

This on is an InGen vehicle.

It has tanks in the center and a nozzle on the front top.

Presumably the truck is designed to spray stuff and it does not have to be airport fire suppression foam.

So maybe soap and water to wash the dirty dinosaurs.

Or maybe other chemicals of a more nefarious nature.
 

Hedges, House and Her Majesty's Secret Service

Hobby Lobby sometimes has some interesting terrain items,

This is a collection of hedges and bushes, in HO scale.

I got this little house at the dollar store.  It needed a little repainting but turned out okay.

Not bad for a couple bucks, note the upstairs window and window box are not painted at all!

The ends of these little buildings often don't get painted.

But I use the cheapest dollar store paints on them and they are economical and durable.

They work fine for background buildings.

They are seasonal and seldom do they have the same ones two years in a row.

Mr. Bond approaches a country home.

No one is home so he returns to his DB5.
 

DB5 by Aston Martin

James Bond and the DB5 car he is known for.  This model is by Hot Wheels and the figure is a generic figure in 1/75th scale and it just under an inch tall.

This car is made in Japan and is 1/87 HO scale with the same figure.

This is one of my James Bond figures for my 1/72nd scale collection.

The HO scale car and Hot Wheels 1/64th scale car look very different in size.  The figure looks plausible with both but seems to look better with the larger car, I think.
 

Kiss Kiss Club Seems Normal

The Kiss Kiss Club entrance looking across the front.

The entrance from the outside.

Another view of the front.

The dance floor.

The band is playing.
 

Kiss Kiss Club is Surrounded

Fiona Volpe enters the Kiss Kiss Club looking for Mr. Bond.

As her henchmen surround the club, searching for Mr. Bond.

They seal off every exit.

A pair of henchemen at the entrance, in the upper right, and the lower right.  Each armed with a handgun.  Viona Volpe in the upper center, near the bar.

Where is Bond?

He was wounded at the Junkanoo and went into the restroom to treat his injury.
 

Kiss Kiss Club is Finished

Kiss Kiss Club, Nassau, Bahamas.

A wonderful place to stop, have a drink, dance, and enjoy the band.

King Erison Combo is the featured band.  Here is a photo of the bar in the distance.

The restrooms, in pink, and the entrance, near the beach ball.

Covered seated in the background.

Kiss Kiss Club staff in their red over black uniforms.

Largo's yacht Disco Volante, crewmen after James Bond.  Note each has a pistol in his hand.

Restrooms heavily modified from Dollar Tree building, and so is the ticket booth and the bar.  The bandstand is scratch built, the figures are all conversions from cheap styrene figures from Amazon, and a few random figures from other sources.  The firearms are bits of plastic added to civilian figures to simulate guns.  The base is PVA plastic sheeting 1/4 inch thick, very rigid, very expensive.  I got it used, for free, about 25 years ago in a large quantity and I am still using it up.  Trees are swizzle sticks from Dollar Tree.  Chairs are wire and plastic scratch builds.  Dance floor is sheet plastic with contact paper border.  Posters were digitally created by my daughter.  Billboards from Target stores.  Concrete color bases are removable or reposition-able for different scenarios, as are all the buildings and trees.  So the whole thing is very modular.  The whole base is 20 x 16 inches.  I worked on it off and on for a couple years.
 

Random Photos of My Collection

This year is  the year I get my basement in order.  I have been buying boxes and finally go the sheds assembled.  I hope to clear off the tables someone this year.  The project includes building some racks to hold boxes and installing a second railing on my basement stairs for safety.  Dollar Tree row houses, Godzillasauruas in the back yards.

The last several years I have been working on a project to make police for some East Coast US jurisdictions and some West Coast ones for the years 1898 to 2018.  These are most of the actual cars that have been allocated for the East Coast.  Many will get new markings and some will be repainted.  This does not include most of the trucks, command centers, SWAT vehicles, nor fire trucks and other emergency vehicles.

Base temporary markings for a figure I am making.  James Bond in Thunderball, 007.

The original figure is 1/75th scale, hard plastic made in China, and comes in a bag of 100 rather generic civilian figures with a small number of poses.  Many companies sell these on ebay and Amazon.  Some painted, some not painted, in several variations of size, and quality and pose number.

The figure after mounting on a base and swapping the head.  In my role playing rules major figures get a hexagon shaped plastic base.  Stats will go on the underside of the base.  The character name my go on a plaque on the upper base or written on the bottom.  Being styrene plastic these are very easy to convert and I swap legs, heads, arms, even bodies all the the time since the poses are limited.  I save every unused body part and they often get used up in other projects so I don't have to sacrifice a whole figure each time.

Mr. Bond with an HO 1/87 scale Austin Martin.

It is a small car and he is a big guy, but it seems very small with the scale difference.

These figures paint up pretty well even with my marginal painting skills.

Bond, James Bond.