An old toy kitchen playset was discovered in a dumpster. Price was right!

The addition of some plastic parts from other toys, along with some foam chunks, gave it needed detail.

Design Masters Primer Gray was applied to the whole thing. (This primer is available at craft stores and adheres well to soft plastics.)

Additional stone-texture paints and "dirtying up" give the finished miniature a fortress look. It is installed on the greenscreen stage along with some prop rocks.

Filming a "bazooka hit" on the side of the fortress.

Agent 12 begins to make his presence felt within the building.

Stuff that is going to be blown up should be light and cheap. Styrofoam coolers and packing material fit the bill.

A little ingenuity, some hotglue and a few plastic parts create the impression of a desert bunker.

Which is helped out considerably by the addition of paint and some very fine powdered desert soil. (We powder the soil ourselves in a powerful ball mill for 8 hours; the result is an incredibly silky, heavy, red-brown dust which we call Dert.)

Filming the Cobalt Missile in flight.

The Cobalt Missile is launched from Area 52.

Trucks explode from the backblast.

A burning truck collapses in flame.

Agent 12 rarely leaves a building standing by the time he's done. This base was built from foam picnic coolers. (See Above.)

Area 52 gets blown to smithereens.

As does the Cobalt Missile.