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Re: Retro-esque Batmobile
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Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:43:23 GMT
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In lugnet.licensed.batman, Richie Dulin wrote:
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BATMAN!
Ahoy,
I loved the original Batman TV series, and to this day remember the words to
the theme song (see above), so I thought it might be fun to build the
Batmobile from the series.
I was away from any quality source material, so I decided to build it in the
style of the original. Perhaps a forerunner of the one they used.
Note the Edsel inspired grill. Also, it’s right hand drive, so it might be
what Batman drives when he’s downunder.
It was quite a fun build, despite being in black. I built only one side to
start with, rather than a full width car. Which turned out to be a good
approach - I could experiment without worrying about keeping it all
symetrical. The wheel flares and wide tyres are distinctly un-60s, but
without the flares, the whole thing was slab sided. So, perhaps it’s a right
hand drive 60s Batmobile, upgraded with modern tyres, suspension and
brakes...
Embarassingly, this is the first time I’ve used the 1x1 ‘cheese’ slopes in a
MOC, and I must say I’m impressed. The trickiest part was the windscreens - I
ended up having to rebuild the Batmobile 1 stud longer to accomodate their
mounting, but it was worth it. If anything, I think perhaps it is a little
short... but I wanted to keep it manageable to fit it inside a possible
Batcave.
Anyway more pics below (click on them to see enlargements).
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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Richie,
Just as a note after the fact, the TV show batmobile used a Ford Concept car as
it’s base. The car was known as the Lincoln Futura, and it came out in the late
50’s. The car was put in storage, but pulled a few years later and reworked
into the TV batmobile. If you like cars of wonder, I have a great book called
“Cars Detroit Never Built”, with some great pics. Not sure if you’ll be able to
find the book, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LincolnFutura
Scott Lyttle
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