Ratrod Batmobile

The TV show Batmobile as a rat rod.

The original paint was not stripped off, so that the black might show through a little and also the pin striping.

I just painted it over and over with the rust paint from Rustall.

I did take it apart so I could replace the wheels.

 A more aggressive knobby tire seemed better for this version.

This version of the Batmobile would work well in a dystopian Gotham City.

Or perhaps in a post-apocalyptic Gotham City.

Maybe in a world where Batman is so busy there is no time for cosmetic work on the car.

Where he works 16 hours a day, 7 days a week fighting crime.

I added a little sign on the bottom because in 66 Batman everything has a label.

It also got multiple coats of dirt wash.

Here with the standard version of the Batmobile, all clean and shiny.

With Batman.
 

Foil and Horses

I needed to paint some horses that are pulling a wagon. 

But I did not want to get paint on the wagon.

I am using spray paint so it will get on the wagon unless I cover it.

 So I covered the wagon up with aluminum foil to protect it from the spray paint.  Worked much better than masking tape.  Faster, cheap, easy, and comes off without a sticky residue.

We Welcome You

Some little plastic generic civilians I got recently on Amazon.

They are very small people as this 1/72nd scale Airfix figure can demonstrate.

Dollar store building.

We welcome you to Munchkin Land.

So I got these little figures both for Munchkins and as just short people or children.

This building looks like an imposing lighthouse in this photo with these figures.

Many of the dollar store buildings have been getting smaller and smaller doors the last few years as the models themselves are littler too.

This one from Dollar General is a good example.

So I am using them for Munchkin buildings.  Or maybe an amusement park.

What if instead of Dorthy Gail from Kansas, it was MP SGM David Gail, with 27 years in service from from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?  That movie might have gone a little differently!
 

Majorette Race Car

Here are some more Majorette race cars.

The back of the card.  There is an empty box inside the blister pack and the car on top.  They are packaged very well, sturdy.

The white care is number 22.

There are six of these, all the same except for the paint color.

I kept the little box, I don't know why since I don't usually.

Here is the powder blue one.

Together with a 1/72nd scale figure.
 

Red Car

Decades ago this futuristic car was a model kit.

As a commemoration of that Hot Wheels is making it again as a Hot Wheels instead of a model kit.

It is a very nice two tone red.

I plan on giving it to Santa Claus.

Shown here with a 1/72nd scale figure.

It's a beautiful car.
 

Race Car

Majorette makes die cast cars like Matchbox or Hot Wheels.

The legal stuff.

It is their 60th anniversary and they are making these little race cars to celebrate.

Very nice tread on the tires.

The lines on the car are very clean.

I like that they include a driver.

Underside is not detailed but I don't care about thatm.

Here with some 1/72nd scale plastic figures.

Checking out the race car.
 

More Mummy Business

Hatchets, or Tomahawks?

At attention.  Or in the mummy case.

Sword play.

Ax man.

SDS made a set of movie monsters, this one with the oval base is their mummy.  He is similar in size but much more chunky.  

But the SDS figure suffers from only coming in one pose.

Godzilla, Frankenstein, Mummy, and Creature from the Black Lagoon SDS style for comparison with their other figures, all about 1/32nd scale - 54mm.

SDS also did a line of humans vs aliens.  They are sort of 1950s teenagers, here with some of the mummies from Dollar General.

60mm Tim Mee figures, with the SDS teenagers and Dollar General mummies.  Could be the start of a low budget 1950s horror movie!