Batman 66 & Monkees

I decided to make a number of bands, large and small that are related to several projects.  USO shows in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam often had popular musicians on tour.

Part of what I am building for my American Cities project is hotels and a movie studio.  Music is popular in those venues.

The figures are generic bulk plastic figures from Amazon, mostly unpainted when I got them.

The Monkees often wore matching outfits which was common for bands until the 1970s.  I selected red over blue because that seemed a common look for them; and the red shirts go well with the car and the logo.

To make the guitars I printed out a bunch of guitar photos and drawings and kept resizing them until they seemed to be about the right size for the 1/72nd scale figures.  I think that a Batman 66 & Monkees would have been a great crossover show or comic book.

Then I printed them on photo paper, cut them out and glued them on 1mm sheet plastic by Evergreen.  I used Gorilla Super Glue Brush and Nozzle glue to affix the guitars to the plastic backing.  Then I cut the plastic into the shape of the guitar.

The Monkees were on at the same time as the Batman TV show but on a different network.  The Monkees did several call outs to Batman with Burgess Meredith wearing a similar outfit to the Penguin, they had Julie Newmar as a guest star (Catwoman on Batman), and there was talk of a Batman 66 / Monkees comic book that sadly, never happened.