Hi Mike, do you wargame in the snow often or was this just a set up for pictures?

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/modern-amazons.html
Modern Amazons from Dark Alliance, a series of photos.





Birdie, here in south eastern Kentucky we only get snow about three times per year and it seldom lasts for more that one or two days. So this was just a set up before it melted away. The edge of the table was already dripping as I was taking these photos! I have yet to actually wargame in the snow, but perhaps next year! Thanks for reading and commenting.

(PS, it seems I am only allowed to comment once per day and so I included my response to you in this my daily posting, I hope that's okay.)

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/deep-forest-green.html

US Army Post WWI trucks were upgraded over time with new wheels, or were passed on to National Guard and Reserve units. Automotive technology moved quickly in the interwar period and there were many purchases of only small numbers of trucks for testing, knowing that they might become obsolete in a few years the Army did not want to replace vast numbers of new trucks.s

They did get new paint jobs and here is one project I have been doing to show some upgraded and repainted trucks for the US Army circa 1938. It is part of my long running War of the Worlds project and I use a lot of the Strelets WWII Early War US Army troops for it.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/spray-paint-can-mixer.html

Recently I found a project on youtube that was so easy, even I could do it. And it was very inexpensive, only about $12.

Using an electric drill you can mix your spray paint cans quickly, easily and completely. Much easier than shaking the can, and it does a better job too.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

Junkanoo Float
https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/junkanoo-float.html

In the James Bond movie, Thunderball, James is visiting the Bahamas looking for two missing atomic bombs. The Junkanoo festival is running at the time. It involves a parade of people in costume dancing, playing musical instruments, and floats. I am making a few floats to create such a spectacle. This is sort of a test run and may not represent the final example.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/float-mock-up.html

The Junkanoo is celebrated in several places in the New World. So this will work well for me in many areas. I hope to make several of these, since I have a lot of these little skateboards and lots of lego type bricks. I have also harvested a few items from Dollar Tree to help me decorate other floats.

My plan is to spend very little on this project since it is not part of my main stream collection.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/automaton.html

Years ago I commissioned two dozen robots that my daughter designed for me. They were called PAeL Automatons and I wrote a whole back story for them. They participated in limited numbers in the Second World War alongside the US Army in both support and combat roles.

Sadly the sculptor had medical issues and only completed a few of the poses and was unable to enter full manufacturing of the figures.

Still it is an interesting story in the world of 1/72nd scale figures.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/amazons-in-vegas.html

In the James Bond movie, Diamonds are Forever, much of the action takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. So naturally, you need show girls and what better girls to show than the Dark Alliance Modern Amazons?

I converted two of them as show girls to dance on stage with a third figure from a board game to act as the singer.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk Blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/paint-mixing-in-action.html

Hot Wheels have released a few cars with a playing card motif. Given that Mars Attacks! and Diamonds are Forever and other science fiction adventure movies take place in Las Vegas, playing card cars seemed like a good addition to my collection.

Here are some photos of one of them.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/mounted-amazons.html

Mounted Amazons. These are the Dark Alliance figures but on new mounts that are more historical. If mythological figures can be historical. I think they can.
Of course, I am using them as the women from Paradise Island to support Wonder Woman so historical versions of mythological figures, based on a comic book, TV show and movies is not exactly using the latest archeological evidence, but there you go anyway.

1/72nd scale plastic figures.

The playing card vehicle posting has been delayed for a few days.
Plan accordingly.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/painting-and-stuff.html

Italeri Artillery, French Artillery of the Napoleonic Wars.

1/72nd scale plastic figures.

I don't do Napoleonic Wars, so what am I doing with these guys?

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/vans-and-painting.html

With recent good weather, I have been doing a lot of painting. It is often too humid here, or too cold, or too hot to do spray painting. So when it is right, a large backlog gets painted, day and night.

Some of these are die cast vehicles and others are horse drawn wagons made from lego type bricks.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/playing-card-car.html

New Hot Wheels car perfect for SPECTRE henchmen, or maybe Batman villain Joker to drive around in Las Vegas or Gotham City!

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/queen-of-hearts.html

Playing card marked cars are perfect for Las Vegas role playing games. I intend to get a small fleet of them. So far I have only three but I hope to get a few more at least.

The Joker certainly would benefit from playing card automobiles.
So the Batmobile may be chasing some soon!

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/casino.html

Playing card vehicles with 1/72nd scale plastic figures.
Both outside and inside the casino.
Outside the casino is very typically Las Vegas, particularly old Las Vegas.
Inside is it a more modern Asian theme with a Chinese dragon carpet.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/casino-and-mr-bond.html

In Mars Attacks a fleet of Martian UFOs attacks the Earth and their efforts are chronicled in their attack on Las Vegas. In the Amazing Colossal Man a giant 60 foot man attacks Las Vegas, and in the sort of sequel, the Attack of the 50 foot Woman also attacks Las Vegas. In one of the Godzilla movies the MUTO destroys the Las Vegas strip.

In Diamonds are Forever, James Bond has a car chase on the strip and other scenes in and out of casinos. Lots of adventure and potential for miniature wargames and role playing games. I have been working on constructing miniature casinos and here is the interior of one of them. This is a mock up and not the final product. Just testing the concepts and size of furnishings.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/police-raid.html

The new inn is raided by the police. Suspects are loaded into the paddy wagon. Police keep a close eye on the suspects. Innocent bystanders stand by looking innocent.

Police by Red Box, civilians are cheap bulk purchase generic people, and the wagon is based on knock off lego type bricks.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/home-alone.html

Generic American home useful for the last 150 years or so. Just about HO 1/87 scale which is great.
Comes painted and assembled and ready to go right out of the box. I have a whole neighborhood of Funko Pop Town buildings now!

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/house.html

Funko Pop Town makes about 41 buildings, and the scales vary wildly. Usually I try and get them in the 15mm to 28mm range and so I have about a dozen of them. Others are mostly too small a scale, or not something I am interested in having.

They are usually from TV shows, movies, or Disneyland related. The buildings are very durable, molded in many colors and usable right from the box.

This house is generic enough that you could several of them and use them together as a housing tract, or repaint them and scatter them around a town and they would not look out of place.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/american-house.html

One thing I like about many of these is the sometimes have a detailed back. The American House is very nice, with even a basement stairwell.

All of them have a back, but sometimes it is not much more than a solid wall. They seem to be getting better at detailing all the sides.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/police-chopper.html

In any wargame that takes place in modern times it is likely that police may be involved, particularly in the opening parts of the action if the action comes as a surprise. Police are often the first to respond to just about any emergency except in fortified border areas.

So I have a reasonable number of police vehicles and I managed to pick up a new set from Matchbox that includes a police helicopter.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/04/police-cars.html

In the USA the police often use the same cars from coast to coast. There are often only one or two vehicles specifically marketed as police cars so their choices are often limited for regular police vehicles. Here are a couple police vehicles by Matchbox and I have several of both.

Police car body styles often don't change much year over year, but the cars themselves often don't last in service for more than a few years. So for miniature purposed you can often keep the same car in service for ten years or more.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog