https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/01/germans-in-defensive.html

Good close up views of the miniatures battle that has been raging recently. Caesar Miniatures, and Odemars figures and even a few from Revell and Italeri. All in 1/72nd scale plastic.

Vehicles are 1/87 scale, HO, by Roco with significant conversion work done to them. I am a pretty good model builder but not a great model builder so if they are conversions, then you know they are easy ones.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/01/figures-and-roco.html

Figures and Roco

Several interesting and easy conversions from the SWS halftrack and the Roco Tiger II.

Enjoy.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/01/sws-halftrack.html

My Roco collection is very old. There are many vehicles in it that are 40 and 50 years old or more. Not only have I been buying vehicles since 1963, but I have purchased other peoples collections who had vehicles from the 1960s and 1970s. So I have a lot of SWS halftracks, and Grille anti-aircraft guns.
When I was working I stocked up on Roco and other hobby items knowing that I would not have much money in retirement.
So now that I am retired I am looking at ways to use and improve my old and sometimes dilapidated vehicles. Here are a few photos of them with a couple improvements made.

1/87 scale vehicles with 1/72nd scale plastic troops.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/01/eagle-games-troops.html

ACW and Colonial style troops, foot, and cavalry, with cannons.
They mostly have a single firing pose but are great as a way to beef up a firing line!

The cannons are largish and sturdy, no crews. I often use them for conversions or use the wheels.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/01/mikes-desk-top-projects.html

Mike's desk top projects. I am always working on more than one project.
Can't paint outside if it is too cold / humid / hot.
Can't paint until it's been primed. Out of primer.

Can't paint until it's assembled. Waiting to get three more so I can build them all at once.

Have to gloss coat before I can apply decals.

So many details to attend to.

See what's going on now.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/01/more-on-my-desk.html

I am working on Hot Wheels conversions, figures, and buildings. Here are some photos of these projects. Some projects take me a few minutes and others I work off and on for decades.

These are all fairly new.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/01/raf-personnel.html

Airfix RAF Personnel 1/72nd scale soft plastic figures.

I have several purposes for these figures and the least of them is as RAF Personnel.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/01/more-raf.html

My intention is to have only a tiny WWII British collection. I use them only as support for US Army troops, not really as independent units. The RAF helped insert US / UK and French agents into occupied territories during the war, using Lysander aircraft to land small numbers of agents and supplies. I have a small collection of Jedburgh teams. These were three man teams of a British, American, and French solider who went into France to coordinate with French forces for the immediate liberation of territories by advancing troops.

These Airfix figures will in some cases provide support for those teams and units of similar types.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/02/robots-with-robots.html

I recently got some small robots and now I am sharing photos of them with other robots you might be familiar with.

There are also photos of 1/72nd scale troops in plastic to give you more of an idea of scale.

So far I have no specific plan on how to use these, but I suspect there will be various times where I can employ them, as both friend and foe.

As a Steam Punk Enemy to Boer War era British?
As a Diesel Punk Friend to WWI era soldiers fighting each other or perhaps alien invaders from Mars?

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/02/robots-big-and-small.html

Robots large and small lined up for size comparison and group photo.

I like robots because they have so many uses, good guys, bad guys, civilian, explorers, military, Earthings and Martians can use them.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/02/blob-monster-attacks.html

A while ago I was sealing up the area around my basement door by using an aerosol foam spray. I had some left and just sprayed it into a single mass. It turned out to be a pretty cool looking blob monster, not unlike the one on Johnny Quest.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837348/

So I painted it orange and added some eyes and now it is attacking the city.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

I love the Blob monster - makes me flash back to "Johnny Quest" - which is the point, I guess.

WW you don't have to flash back, you can watch it for free:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8j53ug

It is as good as I remember.

Strelets could do a whole series of troops and accessories for this TV show!

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/02/gen-gumm.html

In the Batman TV show Colonel Gumm works for Pinky Pinkston making stamps for her trading stamp company. On the side he printed counterfeit postage stamps and sells those on the collectable market.

In the comic book series based on the TV show, now General Gumm, he gave himself a promotion, is up to new adventures facing against Batman. One of his new tools is a weapon that looks like a flamethrower but sprays glue instead of flame. He has his henchmen organized on military lines and wearing military style clothing except that their clothing is the color of bubble gum, pink.

I am using Airfix USMC figures, first series, to convert them into some of GEN Gumms henchmen.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk Blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/02/flamethrower-and-other-figures.html

Flamethrower as glue throwers and other figures, from the Airfix USMC set!

Great modifications to toy soldiers that could be useful for other purposes too.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog