Batman Penguin Mobile

1/72nd scale Penguin and the Penguin Mobile.

This is one of the cars from the set that had the Gotham City Police car.

It was originally called Fast FeLion by Hot Wheels.

For this set it was repainted as a Penguin car.  The picture of the Penguin looks like one from one of the movies rather than the Batman 66 universe that I create, but I can live with that.

The top reminds me of the Jaguar XKE series from the 1960s.

The bottom has this white rectangle that seems like it should be a button, but does not seem to be one.  It has been released with many different markings before t this.

Penguin, giant rubber duck, and Fast FeLion.  Duck from Batman Returns movie.  

 

Gotham City Police

A set of Batman related cars from Hot Wheels.

I don't buy these sets often.

But the cars in this set seems pretty good.

I am building a Gotham City Police Department.

So getting their police cars seems a good idea.

I have seven of these sets so I have seven of these cars.

My plan is that Gotham is a rather small portion of a larger urban area.

It has it's own police and with mutual aid and a memorandum of understanding with other agencies has full authority with it's neighboring cities. 

The car has decent underside detail.

Top has a sun roof rather than a light bar which seems odd.

Still it seems a good car with a few cops in the photo by Red Box in 1/72nd scale.
 

Brittle Plastic and Head Swaps

Airfix WWI British Infantry in 1/76th scale.

Sadly, many of them have fallen in combat.

They have succumbed to plastic rot.  I have stored them indoors, in a climate controlled area inside a plastic food storage container, out of the sunlight, inside a dark drawer.  

The wheat are separated from the chaff.  All the dead and wounded are evacuated and the rest are returned to duty after the screening.

The unit suffered about 30% casualties. 

Hopefully they will solider on for decades to come.

The heads are removed from the brittle figures and they will be repurposed.  Strangely the thick parts like bodies and heads seem to last longer than the bases and arms and legs.  I will use these for head swaps, but when that happens about 10% will split apart and be discarded like their bodies.

I use these head to make Interwar US Army troops who wore a similar hat to the British service cap.  They also get used as police heads, as this was a common service cap for police from the 1920s and even similar ones are used today by US police.  I take generic civilians and replace their head with these guys and add weapons, billy clubs and other gear and use them as cops.  Some other figures look good with this head, the Matchbox US Army solider in greatcoat firing a .45 semi-automatic pistol and the Airfix WWII US Marine standing and firing a pistol, make good police, or even MPs with this head.
 

Pink Chip Stamps

1972 Lotus Europa Special used by Pinky Pinkston, heiress to the Pink Chip Stamps fortune.

Delivery vans parked at the loading dock.

Pink Chip Stamps given as loyalty rewards program at many retail shops.

The rest of the fleet.

The vans are unmarked due to the value of their cargoes.

The stamps are printed and warehoused here before shipping to retail customers.