Carriages

I got these Christmas ornaments at the Dollar General store, for a dollar.

They are one piece resin, covered in glitter.  I hate glitter, it gets everywhere.

I used Simple Green, it did not take off the glitter and so now it is soaking in Kleen Strip Green Paint and Varnish Remover.  I have done the gold one a couple runs and it still has glitter in the tight spaces.  One more run and it should be fine, but it has been too cold for that.  Maybe next week.  It is coming off okay but I like very single square of glitter off before I repaint them.  It's a big carriage, really probably 1/48th scale.  But my plan is to use it for a Disneyland Main Street parade with Eagle Games horses, so it should be fine for that purpose.  The second one will end up in Oz, not sure who will tow it.  Maybe mammoths or giraffes or something odd.
 

Lollypop

From the doll house miniature section of Hobby Lobby.

I plan on using them for my Wizard of Oz Munchkins.

These are about 15mm size figures.

They look pretty good size wise.

They are in nice colors.

I think they will help to make my Oz group a colorful success.
 

Strelets Infantry from Someone Other than Strelets

Zvezda Russian Strelets Infantry 1/72nd scale set 8040.

For years I have wanted to do a Wizard of Oz set up, once I read about a few guys who were wargaming Oz.  So I figured I needed Wicked Witch of the West guards and maybe other armies. 

In the movie, the Wizard of Oz, Emerald City and Munchkin Land both have small armies.  So perhaps the Good Witch of the North needs an army also.  So my plan is to make a Santa Claus North Pole with elves, workshops and an Army of the North.  These guys look very much like a traditional Santa Claus from the Victorian Era.  Given that the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written in 1900 that seems a good look for his army.  I thought is that Glenda is the Witch of the North but that Santa is the sovereign.

So these will be my Santa's Army.  I will use the Strelets - Strelets figures as the guard for the Wicked Witch of the West.  They describe themselves as "free" when she is killed in the movie.  So perhaps they are captured Santa's Army soldiers acting under an evil spell.  Anyway, each army will only be about a platoon or so.  

Next I need to find some maybe 15mm Napoleonic (British perhaps) as the Munchkin Army in 1/72nd scale.  Any suggestions leave them in the comments.  Remember I am looking for inexpensive and easy to paint.
 

We Welcome You

Another Munchkin house.

Also from a dollar store, I think Dollar General.

It's a tidy little house.

Sometimes I have to repaint them or touch them up.

But this one is pretty good.  Airfix Civilian running past.
 

Spring Building

Part of my Wizard of Oz, Munchkinland project.

The plan is to use them for OZ fantasy games.

But they would also work well for displays in an amusement park.

I find buildings like this at the dollar stores, often in the spring, and sometimes around Christmas.

This one has no "snow" on it so it's a spring building.  Note the Airfix Civilian for scale.
 

Tree Houses

Dollar Tree springtime houses.

Nice dragon fly detail, in 1/72nd scale it is a killer.

I got a bunch of tree houses this year.

I don't do much fantasy but I am sort of working on a Santa Claus / Wizard of Oz / Nutcracker Suite type world.

So toy making elves have to live someplace.

And they could be Munchkins.

So put them in little forest houses like this.