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This is my 55 Ford Futura show car from the movie 'It Started with a Kiss'. Due to the model's multi piece body, i assembled the entire body and cut out the floor/chassis to allow the interior to be added later. this allowed me to putty up the seams and paint it separately. I added bare metal foil to the canopy and hand painted the figures, which i also gave the driver a cap. Tires were painted matt white, then masked the whitewalls and painted them matt black. I photoshopped a real NYC license plate with the correct numbers and printed it on super-glossy photopaper. The taillights were painted with tamiya clear red. body was polished with micromesh cloths and Novus. After converting my last Futura to a batmobile, i really wanted to build one stock.
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some more pictures from wip
Out freekin standing. Looks Great
I just found this model and was amazed that it was still wrapped in plastic ( won't want to bet whether it was
re wrapped some time in the past though).
Any way I was stoked that I found it, figuring it would be somethin' cool to build, from the days gone by.
seeing yours moves it futher up the to build pile.
Steve
Building the perfect model---just not quite yet
Bad lookin' ride.
Great seeing that kit built up in that color !
Heck ! Great seeing that kit built up as the Futura !
I intended to turn a spare kit into the Batmobile, but my procrastination was rewarded with a Batmobile kit.
Now I know how to build up my spare Futura !
Nicely done!
Beautiful job! I remember seeing one on display at a local dealership, back in the 1950's. Couldn't understand why my Dad wouldn't buy one as the family car! I don't think any were sold; it was a concept car for auto shows, etc.
Which company made that kit?
Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...
@chuck, Revell re-release from 1995
Cool! I woulda built it first as a Futura. I never cared for that Batman show anyway---too corny!
I'd already converted one Futura to a batmobile, but the batmobile kit is heaps better, so i got one of those. Might turn this into a draster or production car.
OctaneOrange I'd already converted one Futura to a batmobile, but the batmobile kit is heaps better, so i got one of those. Might turn this into a draster or production car.
Actually, one suggestion would be to rebuild it as a touring "Batmobile" matching the example I saw after the show ended.
The "Batmobile" I saw on display at shopping malls in the Chicago area during the late 1960s was basically just a fiberglass shell bolted to a metal chassis with a very rudimentary interior.
The display car was so crude, it actually had an old bicycle turn indicator assembly bolted to the- um, dash - as the only instrumentation.
If I recall correctly the Futura was a Lincoln concept car from the mid 1950 (1957?) and one was sold to George Barris, or a movie production company, who customized it into the "Bat Mobile". Barris did the customizing, again if memory serves me. There are several replicas out there showing up at car shows. Some are better than others.
It was a 1955 concept car. There are fiberglass kit cars out there so you can build your own.
Cool!i customized mine with a full engine and chassis.
Good looking job Philo426 . did you do a WIP? and what engine trans did you use?
I used the chassis/engine from the AMT '57 Chevy Street Machine!
Looks good phil. i would have used the chassis from my 59 thunderbird, if i hadn't already planned to build it.
Thanks!That flat pan just would not do!
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