More Reef Work

I tried something else for more three dimensional settings.

I rolled a bit of the coral reef border around itself and used it as a stand alone with the previous pieces.

The lobster liked it right away.

The crustacean was a bit crabby about it.

The border is over 14 inches long before it repeats the image.

Better still, the border is double sided and has a totally different, but similar print on the back side.

I am hoping to use this for James Bond, Thunderball type set ups, sunken ships, treasure, oil pipelines, U-boat adventures.  I think this will work for my purposes.
 

Underwater

I got some bulletin board edge paper from Amazon.  Since I have a lot of mini-submarines and a few large ones it seemed a good idea to work on ways to depict underwater scenes.

I took a few of my undersea plants and placed them in a photo box with a sky background and the coral.

I think the sky works okay as very clear, tropical water.

Note the nautilus, sea turtle and crab.

Here with a lobster.  I am trying for something that looks okay, does not take up too much room, is cheap, durable and will work with several scales.
 

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 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.
 

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.