Doug Mcclure. Famous Navigational Explorer.

Here is my Crooked Dice Adventurer and Guide. Doug McClure.

As I am sure you will know. He never really ended up where He wanted to be in his films.

At the Earth's Core, Warlords of Atlantis and The Land that Time Forgot!

Never let him drive!

Here we see Doug arrive!

 I am sure He will be here soon!

 Finally!

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He took a left at Albuquerque! 

I have wanted this Miniature for a while. Crooked Dice did a great job.

Xmas Chuffa Train. Kids toy. About the right scale?

I got this from a shop called Bargain Buys. For 12.99.

Main thing that attracted me were the Wagons. The Tender is awful! Needs loads of work.

The colour scheme was very Festive! Green, Red, Silver and Gold. Even the bogeys as you can see were all Red.

I have repainted the open wagon to a more muted colour scheme. But I still want to do more to it.
The Brake/Freight box car was bright red with "Merry Christmas" in white on both sides.

That had to go!

The Engine itself is salvageable and very Wild West. Pity that the drivers section is solid and a main part of the structure. Holds the batteries that make it ring the bells and make "chuff chuff "sounds.

But none to bad overall.

Piccies.
Figures are Heroclix Bioshock and a RAFM Cthulhu Paranormal Investigator for scale.

 The two painted wagons. I just painted the bogeys black.

 I don't know why they made the stack of clear red plastic. It doesn't light up.

 The Coal Tender. Awful! Needs work.

The tracks did have 4 straight sections. Unfortunately they don't fit with my earlier train track in this blog. Connections are not the same. But I can modify them with a knife. Also known as "Lopping them off"

Halloween Spiders and Ping Pong Storage Vessels

Finally done some of my Tesco Halloween Spiders.

All I really did was glue them to a wooden base in 1s and 2s. Then pva and sprinkle the bases. Finally red and orange paint on joints and down the backs to give them a Tarantula look.

Loads of giant spiders.

 I did this Point of Interest out of some more spare buckets and crates while I was messing about.
Lead and plastic spare bits from various kits. It allowed the glue to dry on the spiders.

These are Ping pong balls I stuck on more of those Toxic Refinery plastic parts from Urban mammoth/Pegasus. Would love to get my hands on more of this stuff. I am running seriously low.

New refinery bits. Rough LOL.

These are more PDQ credit card rolls of various sizes.
Mix in some sprues from old kits as pipework. Plus some Capacitors from old circuit boards..
The sign is an army man accessory with decals.

 Bits of the Toxic Refinery from the Platformer/Urban Mammoth/Pegasus range added in.
Useful kits if you can still grab them!

 The Small table looking item came from a craft knife that I only got because it had spare blades that fitted my favourite knife. Finding replacement blades is starting to get hard.

Figure is from Heroclix. Another Scientist.

Making more new stuff from Adventure 2000 and Scenery Start.

Started more messing about with my collection of Matchbox Adventure 2000 Vehicles.
Another Kill-Dozer with added bits. VHS tape innards. Spares box bits and elastic bands where the tracks should be.

Not many of these vehicles come with the original tracks. Thick elastic bands I purchased from ebay stand in for them. Painted black later then lines of gun metal cover this a bit. Not perfectly but it will do for me.

More work as I think of it will be done to these.

Again I had to saw through the back of the canopy on this model. They always seem to have the drivers canopy distorted as if someone has stepped on them. Thus the rough card at the moment.

 More painting to be done as yet. Just blocked in the main areas. Then decided to stick more bits to the sides.

 Tractor Unit with added Gubbins. Missile launcher was a gonna. So another Low Pressure Gun was added. A co-axial recoilless rifle from Tamiya 1/35th weapon set added as well.

 

These guys are those Screwdriver sets again. I decided to try a different look to the top and bottoms. Top here has some Poundland "You sank my Battleship markers" stuck around it.

 Bottom is here not inverted as I have done before. More Battleship markers filled the holes where the driver bits were stored. Capacitors and other plastic bits glued to its' middle for that complicated look.

Updates as they happen. Or I finish them. Still have to stick these to bases though.

Space Marines from Conquest Magazine. Cos they were cheap!

I don't usually do much with GW figures. But at £1.99 for three figures, three paints and a brush.

I got these.

It has been about 30 years since I painted a space marine.

Other paints from my own collection.

Again I may tweak the paintjob. Lining and such as and when I can be bothered.

Set Dressing. Matchbox Hot Wheel Trailers. Bulk Head Doors.

I got these "Speed Trap" Matchbox trailers from Poundland.
Repaint the mainly white and silver trailer in a more grubby looking military green.
Used Tamiya Smoke X-19 to wash over the chrome silver. Gives a nice oily look.

Left before. Right After. Also applied an old Decal Number to the painted one.

 The Backs. I just painted over the stickers. They were a bit to well attached. Didn't really want to scratch them off.

 Bulkhead door. A piece of Triang/Hornby bridge support left over from my tables. This one was to tall to make a believable table on its' side. But attach a drinks carton plastic close cap. A small plastic police light from a knackered cheap car and a bit of spring motor on the upper left. We have a Solid Door!

Still got a few more of these to randomly decorate. Never have to many doors!

My Diecast Chieftain Tank.

I found two of these old Dinky toys tanks at shows. I remember them as a child. But never realised they were almost the perfect scale for 28mm figures.

They were missing their tracks and other pieces from the barrel of the gun.

I have started painting and detailing them, but they both need more work.

The gun sleeve was taken from one of those cheap ergonomic grip pens. Just used a sharp knife and cut it down the seam. Then slip onto the barrel.

More detail and painting is needed. But usable. I don't really want to cover the turret mantlet section. As on these vehicles the gun rises and depresses via the command cupola being rotated. Anything I put over the hole may interfere with that. Still I may find a solution yet.

New Gasland Car in the making.

Started having another bash at another Gasland car.

Not played the game yet. But decided to make a flamethrower turreted car.

Don't even know if they are allowed.

Another car donated by my brother from his son's no longer wanted toy box.
A spring cut down, makes the fuel supply.

 A gun type projector possibly from a fire engine for the barrel.

 Two different sized capacitors from a circuit board for fuel tanks.

Needs the paint obviously. But I may add window armour from cardboard yet.

In the Lab!!

I have been making a lot of my own office and lab furniture. The Work Tables and Book Shelves are made from Hornby Railway bridge supports.

I turned the on their sides and a Work Table or Bookshelf for my Miniatures.
Copplestone and Ainsty bits scattered around.

 Ainsty do a nice little set of PC monitors. I put one on each table.

 Part of a disposable camera made one of my work tables. The guy in the grey overalls is working there.

 Various circuit board components and make the books/file boxes and little capacitors the tubs.

 Even parts of old VHS cassettes have been used. This is the Camera worktable.

 I always save useful looking shaped components. Just in case they come in useful. Thus the Centrifuge on this table.