Customizing the McFarlane Batmobile

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Decided to add more chrome to the wheels
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Evolution of the wheel. The bat needs a steadier hand, but focus on the Chrome.
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Got a new flame
Original with red ring mod
Black ring
Black ring
Modified to add black trim
Red trim
Red trim
New flame
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Lou Szabo wrote: Wed Feb 16, 2022 1:39 pm Got a new flame
Original with red ring mod
That's looking great!
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Very nice, Lou. Keep 'em coming.

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Barnabas, thanks for finding the flame! It completely fills that turbine exhaust!

I received the LEGO flame. Remember Charlie Brown’s Pathetic Christmas Tree? Yeah, that’s the look :lol:
I tried it on a 1/43 car, but I need to trim the 1/8” base to about 1/16”
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The Lego flame is fun. Are you putting it on your McFarlane Batmobile? If so, let's see it!

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Thank you for this! I just received my batmobile today and plan on updating mine to be more screen accurate too.
This is so helpful! attached is a photo of mine (still in the box)
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I did some tweaking to my 1966 Batman Mcfarlane Batmobile. I was looking at the Giant 1:6 Scale Batmobile 1966 by Jazzinc Dioramas and noticed lots of colored knobs in their car so I decided to do the same. I even add a Bat-compass on the passenger side dashboard for Robin. I prefer my dashboard black and am not going to paint it silver like their car.
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One of the FIRST things I did was paint the logo red on the rims. HOW could they have missed this?
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Antman . Nice Job
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Thanks Lou - UPDATE: I painted a few more interior knobs in my batmobile
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The more I look online the more differences I see with each 1966 batmobile. Some had red inside the fins and some don't. I painted the dot red because some batmobiles did and some not. I'm not sure if I should do this next mod or not? Just because I can doesn't mean I should right?
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Those are tail lights. You might find some red styrene taillight material at a hobby shop or eBay and shape them to fit. The real car has two bulbs per side. Also on your console, the two knobs in front of the phone is typically sky blue. Mark Racop has the one to one scale versions on his fiberglass freaks website for good reference. I used a 2 mm Chrome pen from hobby lobby for the window frames and Radir rims if you want to take it that far.

Keep it going, I like these ideas.
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I added more colored knobs in my batmobile. Red blue orange and yellow I added on the dash using colored electrical tape so I could remove them if I didn't like it. So tiny & difficult to do. To the naked eye great but when you take a photo & zoom in you can see it’s not perfect but I think it’s ok? I'm thinking of maybe doing red piping around the seats.
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Looking good, antman67. Keep 'em coming!

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