Batman and 1/72

[Daryl J.]

Two Face gets an Airfix Spitfire Mk.1 with a 2 bladed Watts prop.   Undersides black and white just like the real McCoy.  Then the topside gets the reverse of the black and white scheme.     Dignity meets something wrong.


Penguin gets a Heller Me-163 with wings and tail modified  more to penguin wing shape.  (Ordered this kit from Rollmodels already...perhaps it'll make the Airfix/Heller GB???)  Colors as yet undetermined.


Batman himself gets a Vampire with serrated trailing edges of all flying surfaces save for the horizontal stab.   Nose more pointed.   Lo-vis surround to the bat emblem.   I've not found a US supplier that has the Vampire in stock so it may not come to fruition.  


Others??


Gotta 'fess up too, we watched the Batman Begins DVD over the long weekend.

Daryl J.

[dragon]

Off hand I would give the Joker the Spitfire and Two Face would fly either a twin mustang or some other kind of zwilling.

Have you gone to your local hobby shop?  The old Airfix/Heller 1/72 vampires are common enough.  If you don't find any at your local hobby shop, then check out Squadron.

Bandai makes a wonderful (but somewhat expensive) BATMAN BEGINS Batmobile in 1/35.  I have built it as the BATMOBILE, one of these days I must purchase another one to build as THE TUMBLER.  Christian Bale was a much better BATMAN than George Clooney.  

[Daryl J.]

A twin fuselage for Two Face would work.   Black/white P-38 perchance?  One driver, two engines turning opposite from ea. other?

 I'm trying to envision the purple/white/green on a Spitfire but will give it time because it should work.    And I completely agree with you that Christian Bale made (remade?) the franchise viable again.     That's why I went with essentially 'real' aircraft as opposed to the Anime-like machines of Spiderman although they were enjoyable too.



Daryl J.

[philp]

I am more interested in what Catwoman is flying, meow.

As for the Batplane, I still like the Aurora/PL kit like here.


Course, there are a couple other versions.
http://www.theclubhouse1.net/museum/submis...ns/maurice1.htm
or in plastic
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/ipms1996/34.html

[Sisko]

I actually have the finescale modeller article that shows the build up of the first bat plane.

[Radish]

Catwoman flies a Tomcat?

Don't forget the Bat Copter, Bat Cycle.....

How about an F-104 with Bat-shaped wings??

I have my own idea for a Bat-a-Dak too  

[TsrJoe]

coincidentally iv just picked up the 1/48 scale Polar Lights kit at the local scifi shop reduced in price to 5.99 (couldnt resist it!)

im planning to use the fuselage for something else so the scalloped 'bat' surfaces and markings are going spare to a good home if anyone wants them?

hmm... a 'batplane TSR.2'...lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cheers, Joe    

[JC Carbonel]

Two-face should have a twinner indeed ! But why not a twin-spitfire ?

My own take at the Aurora/ Polar Lights Batplane


The 1940 P40 ? I understood this was not a P-40 but a YP-37 or something ? That's what Dave Cockum who had reused it in one of his comics told me so it put me off because I could not see myself converting a P-40 to YP-37 then to Batplane !

Catwoman : well obviously she must have a Grumman . In WW2 it would be a Tigercat possibly with a paw-type landing gear (with extendable claws)

Pengiun : shouldn't he get a FROG kit (any amphibian would do) ?

JCC

[matrixone]

Batmans plane would be a Horten Ho 229B, nothing else seems right or could look better.

Matrixone

[Leigh]

Joker would get a Brewster Buffalo

[Sisko]

Joker would get a Brewster Buffalo

I would have thought that it would be the penguins plane

[gooberliberation]

Two face would be better off with a mis-matched zwilling.. like say mustang on one side, jug on the other.

[Daryl J.]

Goobs,

Bingo!   Mismatched Twilling for Twoface, but......Mustang and Messerschmitt each with a cockpit.



Daryl J.


PS:  Buffalo/Penguin....why?  Just curious

[Sisko]

Because the buffalo just has the penguin kinda look about it tubby short.  

[Leigh]

Yeah but the Buffalo was also designed by a complete Joker.