Joe Handley

I’m planning on finally building a my Revell Futura and Polar Lights Barris Batmobiles, starting with the pre painted Polar Lights snap kit with the figures that will be box stock and a Pro-Touring Futura on Pegasus 23” Hella’s. Here’s most of the Batman related kits plus my second Futura kit. I’m going to start with the Pre Painted Snapper, I just need to brush paint some small parts and glue the wheels to the axles and figures in their seats and it will be done. Next up is the Pro-Touring Futura, it’s going to be slammed over the Pegasus 23” Hella’s. After getting the body pieces put together, I now understand why clamps are your friend with these kits, I had 7 on it waiting for things to cure! All taped together with the rolling stock test fitted. the pile of parts, took this to show a friend what I was dealing with, parts wise. How it sits completely slammed, though I may have to do some hackery to get it a hair higher. The rest of kits will probably be as follows….. One of the other Polar Light Barris Batmobile kits will be done as with more of a Dark Knight bend, like the Burton/Keaton car on the bottom right of the top pic as well as the Animated Series from the 90’s, the Tumbler from the Nolan/Bale movies, then the Snyder/Afflec and the new Reeves/Pattinson movies. It’ll be more of an aggressive, matte back finish and I’m not totally sure what it will get for rolling stock or if I’m going to use the other snapper or one of the glue kits. The other Futura May get built along the lines of the Lamborghini that gets destroyed in the Dark Knight movie, kind of the car he might take to the office or to a “social event” that somebody like Bruce Wayne may have an obligation to attend. The other 2 kits will be done more along the lines of “What If” like the Turbine Car build I have planned as a couple of Kustoms as though the car actually went into production and that are loosely based around what changes Barris made to the car for the TV show, but remove the mods that would identify them as the Batmobile. The Burton/Keaton movie car will likely be built as the Batmobile, I though I had a second one and thought that would be interesting build that as a land speed car if I do, or end up buying a second if I didn’t have another. Finally, I’m not sure if I want to build this from one of the other Barris car kits or get another one of those or another Futura but I was thinking about cutting one down to fit a ‘55-‘57 T-Bird chassis as either a a Lincoln version of the T-Bird and/or a Kustom based on the same concept!

Sounds like the fire is about out, though everything inside is likely toast, literally and figuratively.

Wow, that works way better than I expected!

I dug this out and will do a basic assembly on it to have to compare to the Futura as that goes together.

Wow, that C-4 Vette greenhouse fits the Futura nicely!

A cpuple more that I’ve Been thinking of for a while now too?

Ok, did some more work on it after work today, made shelves for the top to sit on and span the gap between the body and interior assembly as well as started to fix some of the areas where I ground off too much with my Dremel to fit the bubble to the car.

Thanks David, I think I needed to clear my mind some on this one, again, I'm thinking that week of going nuts on that Ecto-1 kit based Limo may have helped with that!

Thanks to you too! I’m going to have to go back and watch that video again now too I’ve found recently that Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh from Phineas and Ferb as well as Milo Murphy’s Law is on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, maybe I’ll tag them at some point as this particular build progresses since they were 2/3 of the writing team on it!

Thanks, it’s appreciated!

I dug the space ship ‘57 out the other night, this is where it is right now, got an actual mounting surface for the top all set up, though I want to get some vinyl tape to cover the glass while filling the areas I got carried away with the Dremel.

Are we road tripping, or Cannonballing here?! If it was just a road trip, it's hard to beat a minivan for eating up the miles and putting stuff!

I found this on the car, if it will help the build any! https://www.streetmusclemag.com/features/confessions-of-a-cannonballer/

I wonder if that car still exists in this for today?!

Whoa, I thought there was something wrong at first, I didn’t realize that was a fluorescent bulb and lamp shade!

I remember that article!

How about a ‘41 Plymouth?!

Went to the club meeting with my current projects, most of which are waiting on primer, one is just getting under way.

Does anybody make a finned cylinder head for the flathead 6 in the AMT '41 Plymouth kit? Dad and I both have them that we're working on and I wouldn't mind getting a couple of those if they are available. Thanks!

Thanks David, now that I'm at this point and all the major work is done, I'm going to step away from it for a few days and go back to see what else might need to be done after showing it at this stage at the model club meeting tomorrow night. I think Aykroyd's thought was to have somewhat of a sinister appearance to the car, as well as to have some supernatural abilities of it's own, like being able to dematerialize as a getaway tactic if the cops started chasing them. I'm not too crazy about blacking out the chrome like in the second rendering, so I'm thinking of either flat coating the chrome or stripping it and painting a contrasting color that would fit with the overall look that he was going for with it without being as "bright" as chrome.

Ok, here’s my tub vs the box stock tub, also made the door pulls too, though I may continue to shape them into something more appropriate for the car.

Got more work done on the interior tub, sanded the seat texture off the front bench and scribed in the basic shapes of the Eldo’s seat inserts and went a bit overboard on the rear door cards, still need to make the arm rests before I attach the cards to the sides of the tub. Now by the time I’m done with this tub, the dash is going to be the only thing left box stock?

Funny you mentioned Midnight Purple, I keep thinking a color like that would look good against black on the Aykroyd 1st Draft car, especially in the areas that are red on the movie cars. I have no idea what I’m going to paint the Limo though, since that is A LOT of car and I want to keep it classy like a “Professional Car” like a hearse, limo, flower car, ETC should be, but I don’t want to riff that much off the Thundertaker and paint it silver either.

Might as well put the mock ups of my Longroof Limo project that I’m working on

Thanks!