Snow Animals

Amazon has a lot of photo boxes.  They are cardboard or plastic boxes with the front and side open.

They often come with animals, terrain, and other accessories to allow you to do small set ups for your amusement or photography.

This one is an Arctic animals set.

It comes with removable base and side photos.

And a host of other bits in various scales.  1/32nd scale wolf and a 1/72nd scale igloo.

1/24th scale fox and 1/48th scale reindeer. 
 

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.
 

Painting APCs and a Tank

Painting some Cold War Soviet armored personnel carriers.

BTR 50.

MTLB.

Some of these models are die cast, some are soft metal, some are resin.  Nearly all have been in my collection since the early 1980.

They have waited a long time for primer and paint.

My Chinese T54 upgrade.  See here the lower hull has been glued on and a bit of sheet plastic covers the gap between the front and rear lower hull parts.

I changed the pin on the bottom of the turret to fit a new tube on the upper hull.

If the outdoor lighting is not just right these sometimes look gray when they are dark green and vice versa.  I think the upper photo shows the tank in gray primer and the lower photo shows the tank in dark forest green.  Probably.