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.
 

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.
 

Kiss Kiss Room Planning and Progress

One of my photo guidelines so I can try and stay on target with what I am trying to build.  Test fitting various items.

Here the dance floor is square, the entrance gate has been added and they ticket booth and rest rooms are test fitted.

This is my plan for the seating.  As you can see there are many erasures and changes on the lower half of the diagram.  I decided I wanted more space between sections for staff and others to walk around.

Paper templates for the concrete pads.  I put down a piece of paper and drew these, then laid them over the plastic, using a dab of stick glue to hold the paper in place, I ran a thick marker over the edges of the paper creating a template on the plastic to show where to cut.

My plan for the ticket booth, and restroom area.  Still working on this sub-assembly.

Kiss Kiss and Neighbors Visit

Each section of the club will be mounted on a sheet of plastic.  It represents a concrete pad, since tables and chairs don't always do well in sand.  Here I have placed the tables and chairs for one of the sections and you can see the pencil lines that delineate where I will make the cuts for the edge of the base.  Tables and chairs are not glued on yet.  I also printed this photo so that I know who goes where in the seating.  I almost randomly selected the number of people who will sit at each table.  A couple have only one person and a few have four.  Most have only two, on the assumption a couple came alone or their friends are out dancing.  By photographing and printing this photo I can use it to reference where everyone belongs.

The same space after the tables and chairs have been painted.  The color scheme is lipstick, pink, red, purple and orange.  My wife and my daughter independently selected those colors when asked to name four common lipstick colors.  I changed the tables from rectangular to square.  The rectangular were too big.  I wanted more space for people to walk around between tables.  The figures come partially and poorly painted so this is not their final color.

 A little closer view.

Neighbor kid in the yard while I was working on this project.

Mom stopped by to bring him home.

Here are my four seating sections for the Kiss Kiss Club.  Each section will be painted as concrete.

Oblique view, figure still have not received their actual paint jobs yet.  Each section will be removable so I can switch the club around for other scenarios.