'The Model Shop' Live Scale Modeling Show Episode 110

The Model Shop Live Scale Modeling Show Episode 110

[MrChief]

Very much enjoyed the the ins and outs of Little Nellie so far-- interesting subject. I am envious of your relaxed, business-as-usual approach to air-brushing on camera. It's like "close up magic."
After taking in your vids over time, I must say one of the things that has improved my life is the use of "heat forcing" paint. I *did* use and over-use a real heat gun. While I did learn caution, I also found a perfect, light-weight heat gun MUCH more affordable too-- a salon type nail drying "gun." Not quite a gun, as it is an in-line heater, which only makes it more convenient. There's a similar version, apparently identical in every way, which is used for heat-shrinking vinyl.
Good show.

[AvengerII]

18:09 -- A bit mistaken here... They NEVER had a customized Batmobile in the old 1940s serials. Columbia (the production company) was too cheap for that! (Warner Bros has NEVER bothered to get the rights to those serials, btw. DC Comics is embarrassed by them! They're too politically incorrect for them! They DO own the 1940s Columbia-produced Superman serials but those are much better than the Batman serials. The 1943 Batman serial has an unfortunate condemnation of/racist message about Japanese at the beginning which makes it "too hot" for WB/DC to handle so they basically left it Columbia/Sony's problem. They didn't censor the DVD release that I have of those serials, btw... They DID air those serials on TV at least as late as the 1990s on AMC.) Batman just drove a regular car in those serials... The customized Batmobile was a thing in the comics starting from about the mid-1940s onward... We didn't see THE Batmobile (the George Barris model) until 1966. For many years, the comics and animated series (Filmations 1960s series, 1977 revival, AND Hanna-Barbera's Superfriends) emulated the Barris Batmobile design until they really broke free of the design in the late 1980s. (The vehicle still occasionally shows up in cameos in the background of the comics version of the Batcave. Batman has a fleet of decommissioned Batmobiles and spares he keeps ready!) They redefined the Batmobile onscreen with Anton Furst's version (one of my three favorite Batmobile designs) in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman movie and the later version that debuted in the 1992 Batman: The Animated Series (toss-up between this one and Barris' design as to which is my favorite Batmobile). Until the 1960s, a lot of the Batmobiles in the comics were 1940s/1950s style cars with a Bathead-style battering ram and a curved trailing edge "Batfin" at the rear. They started drawing bubble canopies on those in the 1950s.

Those 1940s Batman serials are notorious for being cheap and skimpy on things! Those floppy Bat ears! Don't get me wrong -- I LIKE some serials but I don't think the Batman serials were particularly good. I prefer the Captain Marvel, Superman, and Lone Ranger serials myself... There's also two decent Green Hornet serials that are STILL better than Seth Rogen's Hornet movie! They also had some neat Rocketman/Captain Cody serials that inspired the later Rocketeer motion picture.