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BATMOBILE - 1st w/ Michael Keaton

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BATMOBILE - 1st w/ Michael Keaton
Posted by SNOOPY on Thursday, November 3, 2005 11:49 AM
I am making another attempt at building this car. I started getting fustrated with it and put it away 6 months ago. I just got it back out again with a "No going to let this car, P@#$ M* $%^" attitude. We bothered me it that there seems to be a lot of gaps. Has anyone here built this car? I am mainly talking around the exhaust area. Every dry fit shows very large gaps at some curvacious areas. Not a good place to sand. Does anyone have any ideas how to shim tight areas like this or even to putty? To date my putting large areas usually falls apart.

Scott
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Posted by Lufbery on Thursday, November 3, 2005 12:27 PM
Here's a great tip for filling without sanding (too much):

http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/tnt1/001-100/TNT029_Filler_WO_Sanding/tnt029.htm

Regards,

-Drew

Build what you like; like what you build.

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Posted by SNOOPY on Thursday, November 3, 2005 5:46 PM
I used that trick filling in the seems around the bat fins. I was not sure if this method allows you to fill in big gaps (1/8" estimated).
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  • From: Green Bay, WI USA
Posted by echolmberg on Thursday, November 3, 2005 5:53 PM
I normally don't do cars seeing has how I'm mainly a plane guy myself. However, I am a HUGE Batman fan! Normally whenever I have quite large gaps to fill and putty just won't do the trick, I'll take some thin plastic sheet stock and wedge it in the gap. Then I'll use an Xacto or a scriber of some sort and trace the outline of the gap onto the plastic. I'll then cut out the outlined piece of plastic and wedge it back into the gap. Sometimes I'll drop in some gap filling superglue to fill up any small gaps and then I can use a minimum amount of putty to take care of any tiny remaining gaps. I know you can sand superglue but I don't like using this method because I hate it when the glue cures harder than the plastic. I hope this technique makes sense but it sure helped me plug up some massive gaps on my B-36.

Eric

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 3, 2005 6:04 PM
If the kit gives you too much hassles have a look into the new Bandai 1/35 Kit.

Very nice kit, good fit and some serious detail on it, still waiting for the 3rd kit in the series to be released.
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  • From: Tochigi, Japan
Posted by J-Hulk on Friday, November 4, 2005 10:54 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Zen_Builder

If the kit gives you too much hassles have a look into the new Bandai 1/35 Kit.

Very nice kit, good fit and some serious detail on it, still waiting for the 3rd kit in the series to be released.


The new Bandai series of Batmobiles is indeed great.

Hey Peter, have you seen the third release news yet?
It'll be the Batman Forever batmobile, complete with internal lighting. It'll be out in December, selling for 4,725 yen (about $41 USD).
~Brian
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Posted by SNOOPY on Friday, November 4, 2005 11:22 AM
I have not seen the Bandia version. Any body have a link where to veiw the Bandia series?
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  • From: Tochigi, Japan
Posted by J-Hulk on Friday, November 4, 2005 1:55 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by SNOOPY

I have not seen the Bandia version. Any body have a link where to veiw the Bandia series?


Bandai. Not Bandia. Wink [;)]

Try: www.hlj.com
~Brian
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  • From: Warwick, RI
Posted by paulnchamp on Friday, November 4, 2005 10:18 PM
Snoopy,
If you're building the Keaton Batmobile, here's a site I found very useful

www.chickslovethecar.com

Lots of interesting photos. Good luck!
Paul "A man's GOT to know his limitations."
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 5, 2005 1:29 AM
Honestly, hope that Bandai will continue their Batman car series with the clooney one.

Would be nice to have all 4 in one dio(got a batcave idea).
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  • From: Tochigi, Japan
Posted by J-Hulk on Saturday, November 5, 2005 8:06 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Zen_Builder

Honestly, hope that Bandai will continue their Batman car series with the clooney one.

Would be nice to have all 4 in one dio(got a batcave idea).


True!
Did you ever find those Batman logos you were looking for?
~Brian
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Posted by SNOOPY on Sunday, November 6, 2005 5:14 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Zen_Builder

If the kit gives you too much hassles have a look into the new Bandai 1/35 Kit.

Very nice kit, good fit and some serious detail on it, still waiting for the 3rd kit in the series to be released.


It is giving me some hassle but I have always read that in order to be a good modeler one either has to find away to fix or improvize. I refuse to give up. A little sanding here, a filing there, putty, and sweat woolaa...a nice looking model.

Scott
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  • From: Tennessee
Posted by MartianGundamModeler on Monday, November 14, 2005 12:57 PM

 echolmberg wrote:
I normally don't do cars seeing has how I'm mainly a plane guy myself. However, I am a HUGE Batman fan! Normally whenever I have quite large gaps to fill and putty just won't do the trick, I'll take some thin plastic sheet stock and wedge it in the gap. Then I'll use an Xacto or a scriber of some sort and trace the outline of the gap onto the plastic. I'll then cut out the outlined piece of plastic and wedge it back into the gap. Sometimes I'll drop in some gap filling superglue to fill up any small gaps and then I can use a minimum amount of putty to take care of any tiny remaining gaps. I know you can sand superglue but I don't like using this method because I hate it when the glue cures harder than the plastic. I hope this technique makes sense but it sure helped me plug up some massive gaps on my B-36.

Eric

I use a similar method however i use Ambroid or Tennax (sp?) plastic weld instead of super glue. It solves that "hard glue" problem and I no longer use super glue much on plastic kits and not at all on Gundams. You can even use plastic shavings and a drop of plastic weld to fill spots.Since the plastic weld melts the plastic for about 10 seconds it allows you to fill with it. Once it hardens you are just sanding plastic. Sometimes the patch is a little "softer" than the surrounding plastic however teh results are great. I which I this stuff when I built my first Keaton Bat mobile. i'm too lazy to rebuild it. It came out great though I never even filled the fins on mine...as a young modeler I didn't know how.lol

"Some men look at things the way they are and ask ' Why?'. I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?".--Robert Kennedy taken from George Bernard Shaw's "Back To Methuselah" (Thanks to TomZ2) http://martiangundammodels.50megs.com/index.html
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