Flowers and Eggs

Batman, Robin, the Batmobile with egg flowers.

Not sure why one vase has no flower?!?

None of this set up is glued, the flowers are held on by soft clay and so are the vases.

The big egg is from an Easter egg set from the dollar store.

The breakfast bacon was done by my daughter the artist based on a scene from the TV show.

Batman and Robin are conversions that I did.

Henchmen are various civilian figures from Dapol, and Egghead is a generic figure converted.

This set comes with lots of flowers and I suspect many of them will be used by Louie the Lilac.
 

Barbie Meets Batman

While shopping recently I came across several little Barbie sets that are interesting.  This one is an ice skating pond.

The bits are useful in my American Cities project, I think.

They are well packaged.

And are a complete diorama with little accessories.

The whole set.

Batman in 1/72nd scale, about 25mm from bottom of base to top of head.  Barbie is a heroic 32mm size figure.

I think the seat on the bench can be cut down, the counter top is probably okay, and so is the tree.

I think with a little surgery Barbie may also be able to lead a normal life in Gotham City once she is reduced from 8 feet tall.
 

Batman vs Joker

Batman Tumbler versus Joker Mobile Monster Trucks.

For some reason there are a lot of Monster Truck Hot Wheels and many of them are Batman related.

Just as The Joker has tried to take over surfing, and maybe drag racing, he could go after Monster Truck fans.

So a Tumbler with a Joker car makes some sense.

The paint job is pretty well done for a crazy Joker character.  

From a distance it could be almost anyone.

Nice front end.
 

Hot Rod, 66 and Tumbler

The black and blue & gold version of the Batman drag racer car.

My plan is to use them both as cars to compete against super Villains who might try and take over the drag racing circuit.

The standard 66 Batmobile.

I did a little extra detail painting.

See here how small the black Tumbler is compared to the Batmobile; the Tumbler should be larger.

Tumbler

The Tumber is a Batman vehicle that was invented by Wayne Enterprises and was used in the Dark Knight Trilogy by both Batman and villains.

 

The camouflage version is the original military prototype edition and three were stolen by villains and used against the citizens of Gotham City. 

These seem very common in stores near my home.

The black one started life as a camouflaged prototype but was repainted into black and used by Batman to fight crime in Gotham city.

In the movie the vehicle is very large but the Hot Wheels version is underscale.

I have two black ones and a couple of the camouflage ones but it is not my favorite Batmobile by far and being undersized I am even less enthusiastic about it.
 

Bat Tow

Big Rig flatbed tow truck with the ramp extended.

Ramp folded up.

Ramp extended top view, you can see the notch where the wheels go to keep  the cars from rolling off.

Pretty good bottom side for a truck.

My thought  is to remove the pantos and make this an official Battow Truck.

It's a little big, but I like it.

Looks good I think.

Robin the Boy Wonder and the Caped Crusader.

Walking home.

Helping out Pinkie Pinkston.
 

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.