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.
 

Horseless Carriage

Until about 1915 automobile tires were white rubber.

The tires were improved by the addition of new chemicals to make them more durable and it also made tires black.

Here is one of my scratch built 1900ish military scout cars.

Early cars often had a tiller arm rather than a steering wheel.

They were often not very aerodynamic.

This is a 1/72nd scale pilot figure, maybe from Airfix.

In those days pilots and drivers both wore special headwear to protect themselves and to keep warm in the open cockpits.
 

Victory Column

The Victory Column will be one of the edges of my miniature Berlin.

The center is made of a Coca-Cola can, overlaid with a printed out depiction of German martial skill.

You can walk a long way up inside the column and visit the landing.  Here a German observes enemy movement.

The observation deck is very narrow and so are the stairs!

These are cake decoration columns wrapped with plastic glued into place.