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I try and use every bit of material in my collection.
No man left behind.
Even when I do figure conversions I try and make sure everyone gets made whole at some point.
That's not always possible but that's the goal.
I like monster movies, and giant bug movies, and giant ant movies. So I got a big collection of giant ants.
Recently my friend Clarence sent me this awesome giant ant and since I only have one, and that's not typically enough for a whole invasion, I went with a repaint and now use him as a piece of statuary. I think he looks great, thanks Clarence!
Army vans and Batman vans.
Hot Wheels makes a lot of vehicles that are just right for conversion. Two in the shops now are the A100 Dodge van and the small monster truck milk delivery van
The A100 is the van used in the Batman TV series for many of the villains. Often with a bit of signage on the side to provide cover, and sometimes for the whole van to get a repaint from it's standard light blue color.
The milk truck is a perfect small van for US Army 1938. Radios were huge in those days and field artillery needed medium range communication that could be carried in such a vehicle.
So I have been stocking up on these, and naturally I need a few more!
Bitty Town Store from the TV show The Simpsons. Bitty Town is by Funko Pop. Their products are sturdy, high quality, and pre-colored.
I find them excellent as background wargame buildings, the roofs don't come off so no interior fighting. This series of Bitty Town is new, they are all very small buildings about 3 x 3 inches. So in scale they would represent a small structure about 20 x 20 feet.
I modified the decoration of this one to suit my tastes and because I don't care for the Simpsons that much.
Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas and his little house by Funko. It's a nice and I think rather useful little building. It has potential for horror, monster, uses, or even for a run down part of town, or perhaps some third world or Depression Era shanty town. Jack will end up in my Junkanoo parade I am sure.
More information about Jacks house. It is an interesting little building
My collection includes a few "haunted house" type buildings.
They work well for both horror or for a run down section of town. I try and get buildings that don't
have ghosts and giant spiders cast on them so they are limited to just horror.
They can also be used with ruins or with battle damaged buildings.
Years ago I pondered the question, why doesn't someone make figures for some of my favorite TV shows and movies?
Lost in Space, Space 1999, Star Trek, Jonny Quest, James Bond?
Then I realized that I am somebody, I can make my own figures. So for the last few years I have been working on just those things.
I have not posted anything yet for Lost in Space, not much progress on that so far.
But The Kiss Kiss Club is nearly done, held up by running out of a special glue I need!
Star Trek is pretty far along and I have posted on those figures. And Space 1999 has most of the figures initial run through done, but they
need detailed painting and no work has been done on Moon Base Alpha yet.
Johnny Quest is pretty easy, only a few people and a little dog. They seldom visit the same place twice and can be found all over the world from
tropical rain forests to Arctic locals.
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