Joe Handley

I may to try that if the bleach doesn’t work, otherwise, it’s a lot of sanding since this is a surprisingly hard surface and I don’t want to get too aggressive with the sand paper.

That’s what I was thinking after seeing that copper layer too, looks just like what I’ve seen on How It’s Made for chrome plastic auto parts. I am kinda baffled why they went this far on this kit, but don’t appear to have on other kits though.

It’s supposed to work on paint and chrome, but this chrome seems to be automotive grade, there’s hints of copper where I cleaned up the release lines, so I’m hoping that the bleach might actually work for this!

I got some yellow can Easy Off to strip the chrome of this Delorean and all it’s done is waste time an money! It’s been soaking in it for over 20 hours now. I’m about ready to try bleach at this point!

It is amazing how much that changed the look of this truck, isn’t t?!

Thank You!

Here’s that Delorean from last weekend, got a few things done with it this week. And the Futura!

Thanks, I'm looking forward to warmer weather so I can get it into primer and then finish any body work on it!

Thanks guys!

I’d rather keep the weight light back there, though a 2.4l Twin Cam engine or a 3800SC would be options here…….even if one is an Olds engine and the other is a Buick engine.

Here’s a few pics of my build compared to the kit in the box posted to show the difference. This body is far better than the body I’m using for the conversion and would be good for making into the movie car, just need to do something about the severely warped chassis! And here’s how warped that chassis is!

Thanks! Not gonna be engine swapping it though, it’s a curbside with a manual shifter molded in the center console floor pan and an automatic transaxle as part of the chassis plate???

Thanks, I was surprised how well they fit the car and how much of an attitude change they made for it to!

Thanks, and I did see that after watching their Tesla powered C10 build. There’s some stuff I wasn’t crazy about, but liked the direction. Think if I were going to build a Delorean and keep if ICE motivated, I’d consider a 3.6l Pentastar V-6 with some sort of better transaxle. Reason for that engine is that they’re light, compact enough to fit in a minivan engine bay, have all 3 exhaust runners Siamesed into a single port on each head that would make exhaust much easier to build, even with mufflers and cats in the equation, plus make good power with the non-Hybrid versions. My 200 and Dad’s Grand Caravan are both rated at 283hp on plain old 87 octane, and these engines take well to boost as well as corn fuel too!

Ok, I’m getting this Polar Lights Delorean started too now. I wanted to get the time machine stuff removed and and the stance set with the Big and Little Pegasus Hella wheels. Still need to fill in all of the holes for the time machine parts that were to be clipped on as well as molded in place, rebuild the portion of the center stack I cut off, and if anybody has a suggestion on how to get rid of this plating on the body, I’m all ears since the Purple Pond only seems to have removed the matte or semi-gloss clear from the plating I haven’t ground through to remove the molded in external wires. I don’t want to finish filling in those holes in the body until that’s gone. Here’s the box for one of the 2 kits I have. Then here’s my mock up with the Big&Little Hellas from Pegasus. Now how it sits now, after removing most of the molded in time machine stuff then modifying the wheel openings to better clear the tires, though there may be some slight tubbing in the chassis plate’s future. Finally, here’s the semi assembled interior showing off all the holes I need to fill between what won’t be needed and what holes I created cutting molded in things off……..as well as drew a little blood in the process there……..

I’m getting started at cleaning the time machine parts off the Polar Lights BttF Delorean and clearancing the fenders for the big Pegasus rolling stock, but have found removing the wiring around the flares tricky and am trying to use the purple pond to strip the plating, but I think all it’s done is make it shinier at this point, like there is a dull or semigloss clear over the plating. Has anybody else done any of this work on one of these kits? Here’s the mock up pic from that thread as I haven’t shot any pics of what I’ve done so far. Thanks

Not sure about the boat, but the car is the Olds Aerotech, it was used for R&D and set a bunch of records with the Olds Quad 4 and Aurora V8 engines.

That had to be frustrating!

Yeah, it is. I’m kinda surprised that the Futura body turned out as good as it has so far though, I was expecting more of a fight from it.

Thanks!

Ok, got the stance set, now it’s just body and paint work………..wish me luck

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.