Batman 66 Villains and Henchmen

The Joker from Batman 66 has a lot of different henchmen in the many different times he appears on the Batman TV show and movie.  I decided to do at least six of three different types.  I am using this chart so that each figure will have a different combination of colors for his shirt, vest, hat, and pants.  

I am also making henchmen for Catwoman, and the Riddler.  My plan is that each major Villain will get at least 6 henchmen and usually a moll.  The Riddler had henchmen wearing gas masks in one episode so I am doing a team of them with gasmasks from Fujimi WWII German figures.  Riddler wore a gas mask shaped like an elephant head, you can see him in the upper left of this photo.

I am doing models of all three Catwomen.  Why are there three Catwomen? An in-universe explanation. The Catwoman is a title, not a person. When the Kitty Katt Gang chooses a leader it is always a woman. If the leader dies, or is in prison, or is otherwise unavailable, a new leader is put into place. I submit that there are three factions of the Kitty Katt Gang. The Tuxedo Cats, the Black Cats, and the Tiger Cats factions. Each of these three control one faction, but will take over another faction or all three if there is a vacancy. Julie gets the Tiger Cats, Eartha gets the Black Cats, and Lee the Tuxedo Cats. That's my idea.

Catwoman Lee, Riddler #1, Penguin, and MR Freeze.  I signify each Catwoman by title and first name.  The two Riddlers are designated #1 for Gorshin and #2 for Astin.

Catwoman Ertha in front, and Catwoman Julie in the background.  The lighting and focus are not optimal so both look a bit off.

Catwoman Julie receives her ears.  I cut a slice across her head, then insert a plastic tab with a little super glue gel.  Then I cut the ears down to fit, and paint the ears.  Much easier and stronger than putting them in one at a time.

Catwoman Lee.

Three Catwoman in a row, with their henchmen.  Tuxedo, Black, and Tiger Cats.

Project as I work on it, lower left, Pinky Pinkston and Apricot her dog.  Penguin henchmen in black.  Joker Henchmen in three rows of six each and Joker in toffee color with white head.  Joker moll with yellow paper in front.  Colorful Joker henchmen in three rows.  The three Catwoman figures with their 6 each cats.  The TV show used the Tiger motif, but I added the other two factions so I could use all three Catwoman characters together at the same time, each with a unique set of henchmen.  

First row is Egghead, with his 6 henchmen, I think he only had two in the show.  And four Riddler figures, Riddler #1 in elephant gas mask; in suit, in plaid suit, and as Riddler #2 with cane.  Various Molls in progress, and King Tut in the back in blue.  Dark Alliance Vampire figures in the upper left corner.
 

Carriages

I got these Christmas ornaments at the Dollar General store, for a dollar.

They are one piece resin, covered in glitter.  I hate glitter, it gets everywhere.

I used Simple Green, it did not take off the glitter and so now it is soaking in Kleen Strip Green Paint and Varnish Remover.  I have done the gold one a couple runs and it still has glitter in the tight spaces.  One more run and it should be fine, but it has been too cold for that.  Maybe next week.  It is coming off okay but I like very single square of glitter off before I repaint them.  It's a big carriage, really probably 1/48th scale.  But my plan is to use it for a Disneyland Main Street parade with Eagle Games horses, so it should be fine for that purpose.  The second one will end up in Oz, not sure who will tow it.  Maybe mammoths or giraffes or something odd.
 

Painting Trucks and Tanks

Still painting the little Christmas trucks.

And a Paul Heiser M46 tank.

Two more Christmas trucks, this time in Air Force blue.  Pick up trucks were all over the Cold War US military.

Painting the olive drab over the gray primer.  Since I had to strip the paint off the trucks and the Heiser Models are resin, both do well with a primer paint first.

Rust-Oleum Gloss Deep Blue is the color for the Air Force trucks.  I think I was moving when I took this fuzzy photo.

More olive drab for the trucks.  I constructed beds for about a third of the trucks.

They look much better with the beds but it is a lot of work.

I always paint the top and bottom of my vehicles.
 

MPC Vehicles and Boat

MPC collection in the dark.

These are all recast items.

A recast is a toy that has been made recently from old, original molds.  Sometimes the molds have been cleaned up or otherwise modified.  Usually the recast is the first time in years, often decades, since the original mold has last been run.  Colors of plastic are sometime the same as the original, but often are different so that collectors won't be confused as to the age of the recast figures.

The paper flags are older than the models but I can't say how old.

The original MPC weasel had a silver painted wooden dowel.  I used a white plastic tube instead with the recasts since they did not come with a recoilless rifle barrel.

This is the MPC DUWK amphibious truck.

The originals had more accessories, including a canopy.  Often these types of parts were cast from secondary molds and recasts often don't have them available.

The PT boat in the back is also an MPC recast.  I have all these models for over ten years.

As a kid I had one of the PT boats in a beautiful metallic blue with the accessories in some other color, maybe white.  I have a couple old original weasels that I had as a kid and a few from eBay a long time ago.  I never had the DUWK as a kid.

All these vehicles work well with 54mm to 60mm figures.  They have a lot of play value and I like playing with them even now that I am retired.