Revell [Ex-Aurora ‘64] 1/8 BATMAN!!!!

[speedgraflex]

Gentle Reader,

Another trip down Memory Lane. I never built this kit, but I remember seeing a dust covered version peering out at me from the shelf in the basement of Mr Billy’s house. I used to do homework with Greg and his little brother after school in the basement - and occasionally play Dungeons & Dragons and a whole bunch of video games. Good times.



I am doing this Bat in the Seventies comic book style of Neal Adams. He’s by far one of the best artists of the Batman. ‘Nuff said.

Aurora!



Different heads - Aurora versus Revell!!

[Floki]

The updated head looks way better. Not quite Adam West the best batman

[Medicman71]

Well, is he really? I liked the Christian Bale movies myself.

[Stikpusher]

Oh very cool! The 60’s show was a favorite of mine back then. Same Bat time, same Bat channel… I am looking forward to seeing what you do with this one.

[speedgraflex]

Thanks for your replies, Clint, Mike and Carlos. Sincerely. I appreciate your words and have learned from each of you, not just to be a little better modeler (that takes time) but to be a better informed member of the model building community as well.

The 1999 Revell kit features hardened white plastic which is extremely resistant to superglue; superglue is how I learned and I most enjoy building (Wham, Bang, Thank you, ma’am!) so I tried using Mr Cement in the purple bottle. Whatever. The plastic didn’t even begin to melt, so I backed up that with a thin stream of super glue. That didn’t really work either so I back filled the joins and filled in the head opening with black Milliput.

As much as I like the Revell changes, I picked up a $13 resin version from Escape Hatch Hobbies.



Also I am considering this change to the positioning of the figure and hanging the top of his cape on the upper tree branch.



What the fills looks like on his torso.

[Floki]

Milliput is so useful! It's looking good Bruce.

[speedgraflex]

Milliput is so useful! It's looking good Bruce.

Thank you, Clint.

Head/cape fitting. I drilled holes for a post between torso and head.



“Who… are… you?”

[Stikpusher]

Nice progress Bruce. Are you planning to paint him comic book art style, or true life style?

[speedgraflex]

Carlos! Thank you for writing. That is a darn good question. Realism, but in blue and grey!

[BlackSheep214]

Ha! My bro-in-law just finished the original Batman kit recently. He already did Spider-Man too. He started building mainly figure kits during the winter to keep him busy while retired. He’s done quite a few of the old vintage Aurora Monster kits (he wants to collect the whole series). Thus far, he has done Wolfman, Mummy, Dracula, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde, and Phantom of the Opera. He still needs to do the Creature from Black Lagoon and Frankenstein.

I believe there’s 13 in the series but I’m not 100% positive. I think the Witch and The Forgotten Prisoner are two I can think on top of my head. I told him to get the original King Kong, Godzilla, and Ghidra.

Since he’s done Batman, I gotta tell him to get Superboy and Superman too. I did those in my youth years. I think there’s Supergirl too.