Happy birthday Mike, and thank you for all your posts and your tireless enthusiasm for our hobby.

Thank you Alan. I do love the little plastic worlds we create!

Mike Bunkermeister Creek

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/09/batman-villain.html

One think I like to do is take stories, movies, TV shows and books that I like and extend the story, widen the universe and even connect the universes together.

I think the Irwin Allen science fiction TV series are all one universe for example. So here is a monster truck that I am putting into the Batman 66 universe. Batman faces a new criminal who is trying to take over the world of monster trucks. A top monster truck can make $10 million in a year. So it's a lucrative industry with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
Any Batman Villain would love that cash.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-piranha.html

A while back I got a Piranha car from Hot Wheels, now they do it as a monster truck. So I decided with a few additional vehicles and figures mostly from Airfix Tarzan set that I could come up with a new villain. Lots more work to do, but the idea is the main thing.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

A Study Red and Blue

A Hot Wheels van that is like a great work of art, at least to my untrained eye. I don't know yet what they will be used for, maybe another Batman villain, or perhaps something else. Maybe a new Super hero. Still the prospect of getting two very similar paint jobs that are so unique on a rather common van was too tempting to just leave on the pegs.

We shall see what progresses!

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/09/deora.html

A blog called Bunker Talk by Bunkermeister, Mike Creek, about Roco, Wargaming, Wargames, Airfix, Minitanks, Tim ...

This is a new version of an old car. I like the old version better, because it has removable surfboards on it. There is more play value with separate surf boards and it can be used in a non-surfing context without the surf boards. The separate surf boards also look better than the cast on surf boards.

Still it is a good looking car and so I purchased one. It may be repainted or something, however.

Leave a comment at the bottom of the blog!

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

Happy Birthday mate, enjoy your contributions, keep up the good work

Thank you John the Red. I had a great birthday.

God is good, and life is wonderful.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/09/mountain-gun.html

A US Army mountain gun made up of spare Roco Minitanks parts.
The US Army deployed the 10th Mountain Division to Italy in WWII.
This gun was small, lightweight, and was used as a direct fire weapon in infantry support.

I made it out of scrap bits of Roco Minitanks parts that I had in the spares box.
One of my long term projects over the last two years has been to use up my spares.
Repairing damaged vehicles, converting vehicles to new versions, and constructing vehicles out of the bits found in the spares box.
This is part of that project.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/09/artillery-truck-trailers.html

Part of my project to tidy up my US Army artillery and other miscellaneous items here are some pieces of artillery, a truck and some trailers.
Note in the first photo one of these things is not like the other ones.
Tell us in the comments what gun it is and why it is included in this group.
A hint, it's 1/72nd scale soft plastic, and not American, but it belongs in this group.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/09/one-inch-maxim-gun.html

At the turn of the last century the US Navy used the Maxim gun in a one inch caliber. I think, but I am not certain, that the US Army also tested it and may have purchased a few of them. The guns of that caliber were designed for use against small boats, to defend against landing operations, and for use against horse cavalry. A few dozen one inch diameter bullets fired from a machine gun would break up any small cavalry charge.

This one is dismantled for use in the mountains and carried by mule.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/09/mounted-1-inch-maxim.html

The Maxim gun was often treated as artillery in the early days. It was a long range, crew served weapon that was highly technical, expensive, heavy, and required specialized training. Not unlike the cannons in the artillery. They were often mounted on artillery platforms, sometimes identical to the small artillery of the time or sometimes specialized mounts specifically for the machine gun, which was lighter than most artillery and had far less recoil.

Here is my interpretation of one.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

https://bunkermeister.blogspot.com/2025/09/maxim-cannon.html

The Atlantic WWII Soviet Union Maxim gun is way too big for 1/72nd scale and I have a lot of the Esci ones, in both hard and soft plastic. So the Atlantic ones have been re-assigned to other uses. Here is one that is being used as the basis for a mountain gun. In the days before air support and helicopters being all that common, particularly at high altitudes, the mountain gun was important for use in mountains and other places where conventional artillery was too heavy.
This is part of my project to clean out the spares box and use up as many bits as possible to create a few useful items.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog