Chinese Castle

Castle from Giant of Hong Kong, with a Walmart aquarium toy building inside.

Figures from an old Samurai Swords game by Milton Bradley.

The giant Jamaican Turquoise lizards was a huge problem in ancient China. 

Often only a lucky hit from an arrow at the base of the skull could kill him.

Or annoy him so he would attack the archer.
 

Lizard Line Up

These are the lizards I got.  I have two sets of them.  There is no identification of the lizards in the set so I took an individual photo of each lizard and did a Google AI search for what type of lizard is this?  Mostly it came back with "it's a plastic toy lizard" and then said "that looks like an XYZ lizard."  So I was impressed that it could tell a toy lizard from a real one.  I am not sure that the green one with the black spots is really an iguana, but I don't know much about lizards.  If you know about lizards, leave a comment and set me straight on who is who in the lizard zoo.

Here a team of knights defend Sherwood Castle from a giant Gecko.

Knights are from some unknown Chinese company.  They are similar to but not as good as the knights form Caesar Miniatures.  All these lizards are between 3 and 4 inches long.
 

The Castle of the Wizard

The Wizard releases his giant dragon out the door of his castle.

I got some photo background and a set of lizards on Amazon recently.

So I figured I would do some test runs to see how they work with my existing collection.

The surface is indoor / outdoor carpet.

The castle is Sherwood Castle from Airfix, likely 55 years old.  The Wizard is Caesar Miniatures.
 

Bits and Pieces

Johnny Cloud, a DC character, Navajo Indian, used to see visions of an Indian brave riding a horse in the sky.  He was in the US Army Air Force in WWII, so I made this vision out of translucent plastic to use when he has those visions in a game.  It has a hook on the top at the balance point so I can suspend it from above.

Cold War Soviet truck.  It looks gray in this photo but it is actually the dark green in the photo below.  This is an odd paint because even in real life it appears to be gray like this.

Trucks getting their wheels painted, note the window frame has been painted, compared to the photo above this one.

Canopy on, wheels painted, looks good enough for me.

I got a couple sets of lizards recently and I took their photo and asked Google AI to identify each lizard.  This is the results as near as I can figure out.  I know several of them are correct and I think a couple of them may be a little off.  Still I think it is a hard task for the computer to identify a real lizard based on a toy lizard.

I have two of these sets and they will be part of my forthcoming Astron Delta project.