Jameson Rook
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The color of the HT always bugged me, especially since the promo pics (and prototype) hints of it being several shades of flip flop like the real thing.
Hi guys,
I just bought a pretty badly scratched Batmobile. I want to sand it lightly and airbrush it back to pristine. However I cant seem to figure out what color and finish Hot Toys used.
Any ideas?
I think I've stumbled on sites that goes into great detail regarding the paint scheme.
Repainting the Batmobile is something I'm always interested and I wish there were tutorials. The HT glossy black is just inaccurate and off putting.
Here's a quote from Anton Furst:
"The Batmobile was built in kevlar," Furst noted, "which is a polycarbonate that is extremely light and yet very strong. It is the same material used to make racing cars. We then had a custom paint job done on it. There were about six different layers of colors to give the car the finish of a beetle--a lot of colors coming through the blackness so that it had a three-dimensional quality to it rather than just being a flat black. We did not go to a full gloss on it--we left it with a slight matte finish to make it look more like a war machine.
When I look at tge movies i realky dont see the metallic coming through, however its an interesting ideaIt seemes to be a semi gloss or satin black with metallic accent...
Nice read! No idea however on how to recreate that though. Ill probably try my hands on black with a satin finish.
It was never ever black, the movie vehicle is a lot closer to gunmetal, what he says is that he painted it over 16 times to achieve that utter greyish satin finish, what’s funny is that the 1992 looks completely shiny black
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Ill try it out on some donorparts i have laying around. It wont be 16 layers, i was thinking 2 black, 1 gunmetal and a satin finish.Yeah I'm not sure I would go with just a satin black on this, but would at the very least airbrush a thin layer of gunmetal over that to give it that more metallic look. Or maybe gunmetal mixed with a bit of bronze.
Ill try it out on some donorparts i have laying around. It wont be 16 layers, i was thinking 2 black, 1 gunmetal and a satin finish.
Well, on my first try that is.
Hi! Has anyone encounter any problems with their Bat tires? any preventive measures that you are doing to keep it from cracking or melting?
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