Customizing The McFarlane Batmobile Pt. 1 

Haha it absolutely does! Thank you!

Thank you, bro! It really does make a huge difference. I can't believe they didn't just do it right, lol.

Thank you very much!

Thanks! I've used it for masking before, but the thing I don't like about it is that it's amorphous, so it's very easy to miss some coverage because of a blob blocking your view of an intricate spot that was missed. Tape is more binary; it's either there or it's not. For something like this canopy it was really necessary to have that level of control that you can get with good tape.

I'm gonna try that

@@Ibrahim_M I've never run into an issue of missing spots, but I'm sure it's possible. Everything from resin prints to factory plastic, it works like a dream for me.

@@Neekotronus I'll have to give it another go!

Thank you, my friend! It's really wild how much different it looks now, haha.

Haha sorry to ruin it for you! It really is so contagious, man. I'm obsessed, personally, lol.

Thank you, sir! I really appreciate it! Yeah dude, same here, haha. It's actually incredibly sturdy. These fools who say it's cheap have no idea, lol.

Thanks so much, Christopher! I really appreciate that. Part 2 is in the works!

Hi David, I've heard many, many variations of my name (Ibrahim) in my life, but Brian is a first! Lol. In all seriousness though, thank you so much for the kind words. And I'm thrilled that this inspired you to give it a go. It's a very challenging project as far as patience is concerned, but incredibly satisfying. I really appreciate your words of support as well. Thanks so much for watching and for the lovely comment!

@Ibrahim_M Thank you so very much for that it's wonderful to hear from you and I truly meant everything I said thank you.

Thanks so much, man! I really appreciate that! I'm excited to finish this thing!

Thank you, Neehar 🙏🏼! I really appreciate that!

Thank you very much!

Thanks very much!

Haha, thank you! That's about the best reaction one could hope for.

Thank you very much, Travis!

Thanks very much!

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Thank you so much! 🙏🏼

Thanks very much!

Much appreciated 🙏🏼🙏🏼!

Thanks so much, man!

Thanks! I'm glad you found it helpful. And have I mentioned how useful styrene is?? Haha

Thanks very much and you’re welcome!

Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy!

@@Ibrahim_M i absolutely did and look forward to your future endeavors not only a new subscriber but also a new fan 😀

Thank you, sir!

Thank you very much!

Thank you!

Thank you very much!

Thank you! It was harrowing to cut through but I’m glad I did, haha.

Thank you! I'm glad you found it informative!

Thank you, Amir!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you very much, George! Best of luck with yours, sir!

Thank you so much!

Thank you! Haha I do that, too-- I'll watch a movie and be like "Welp! Now I need a figure of that", etc.

Thanks very much, and welcome!

Thank you!

Thanks very much! Yeah, I think at retail, it only takes a little bit more money, (and admittedly a lot of time and patience) to turn this thing into a premium collectible.

Thanks very much!

Excellent! I've only discovered then in the last 12 months or so, and they've been great so far.

Thank you very much, Jacob! Yeah, I love to keep stuff out of the garbage whenever possible, and I actually will sometimes keep random bits of trash that I find because it ends up being the perfect item for a build later on, haha.

Thanks, man! I hope you have a good time with yours. It's a challenging project but it's fun and the end result is gonna be worth it.

And shout out to Evan Designs! I used them too.

Thanks man! Yeah, please do! I'd personally love to watch that, and I think a lot of other folks would, too

Thank you! Yeah I found the interior to be much easier that I initially thought it would be "hence my doing it after saying I wasn't going to, haha).

Thank you very much!! 🙏🏼

Thank you my friend!

Thanks very much! I am actually toying with a 3D scan/photogrammetry app to see if I can get an accurate scan of the canopy. So far the shiny black doesn't pick up, so it's been unsuccessful. And I don't know anyone with a $10k+ 3D scanner, haha. BUT! I have a plan to try to replicate it, so we'll see if I can pull it off, lol.

Thank you so much, Todd! I really appreciate it, man. Hoping to stick the landing! haha.

Thank you, sir! 🙏🏼

Thank you, and likewise my friend! I always appreciate your kind words and support.

@@Ibrahim_M thank you!

Thank you!

😂😂 Thank you!

You're welcome, man. Thanks very much! Good luck with yours and I hope you have a good time with it 🙌🏼

Thank you very much! Part 2 coming in the next few days!

@Ibrahim_M Sweet! I'm going to do exactly what you did whenever I'm able to find one 😒

@@anthonytuccillo6274 Are they still pretty hard to track down?

@Ibrahim_M Yes, I have never seen one in real life lol, Been everywhere, and it's not even online unless I pay scalper prices. I've been looking since the release date.

@@anthonytuccillo6274 Fingers crossed you find one soon, man! It was an ordeal to get mine, too, haha.

Thank you! Congrats on finally getting one! I know they're still hard to track down. Yeah man, even just a black paint job across the whole thing elevates it quite a bit. Enjoy!

Thanks, man! It feels good to have it done!

I really appreciate that!

Thanks so much for the kind words, man!!

​@Ibrahim_M Anytime brother !!!

Thank you! And thanks for the tip! I have a small hack saw that I thought about using, but it's a little unruly at times and the teeth are offset too wide-- I'd never considered a jeweler's saw. That would probably be perfect. Are the blades easily bent/broken? That would be the big variable, I think.

Thank you!

Thanks so much, dude! That really means a lot to me, I hope you dig it!

@@Ibrahim_M can't wait!!

Thanks very much, dude! Yeah, the mean look of the canopy was really important to me for this! It looks more like a mean pair of eyes than a happy "Pixar CARS" version of it now, haha.

Thanks! Yeah somebody else recommended that as well. I don’t know when I’ll ever need one again (I’m not eager to do this again, lol) but now I want one.

Thank you! Yeah, it's such a weird thing to put out an inaccurate version of something we've all got such a familiar relationship with, many of us for almost our entire lives.

Thank you so much! Yeah if you can track down another one to cut up I highly recommend it. I've had a few people tell me they messed theirs up trying to mod it and it would be nice to have a spare. But once you get cutting it feels less intense, haha. Have fun, dude!

LET'S👏🏼 GO 👏🏼! Let me know how it turns out!

Thank you!

Your welcome sir!

Thanks! Yeah I have 2 dremels, but it wasn’t the tool for this. The cutting wheels would have melted the plastic and warped it, and the speed of rotary tools can cause the attachments to make a bad hop and gouge the wrong spot. Since this was such an experiment (and an expensive mistake to make) I didn’t want to risk those factors. I knew that a traditional drill would give me precise control and that’s what I was after. I also try to avoid the fumes that a dremel on plastic makes whenever possible, haha. Thanks for the kind words! Looking forward to finishing this thing!

@@Ibrahim_M I see your point and respect your preferred choice of tools and techniques, I use my rotary tools in almost all plastics and depending on thickness I graduate the speed, also use metal fine cutting disks or reinforced ones...never the thin brittle paste type cutting disks that break easily and can damage the work/model been done. The only two plastics that I use masks with filters because the smell and dangerous dust are acrylic and ABS/PBC and also resin made pieces but I use those rarely, I use styrene and brass mostly for my scale modeling work. Once more you did a superb modification in the canopy and cockpit. I will be doing something similar to a friends Batmobile...but for the canopy will do a completely new one from termoforming styrene sheet over a carved/shaped balsa wood mold and add then cut open the windshield area with lower curvature and add the clear parts.

Thank you very much!!

Thank you so much! Finding ways to make tiny versions of stuff out of found items is really what gets my blood going, haha.

Thanks!

@@Ibrahim_M rewatching now Thanks

Any time!

Thank you! I'm glad I didn't break it! lol

That makes me really happy to know. You're welcome!

Thanks very much! Welcome!

Haha thank you! Yeah too much info to cram into one video!

Thanks!

Thanks very much for the kind words, and welcome to the channel!

Thanks! Yeah I typically use a blowdryer for that, but in this case I started with the canopy and didn't want to heat it up because I was worried about possible warping. By the time I got to the seat I realized I could use it again, haha.

Thank you!

Haha thank you🙏🏼!!

Haha, thanks so much, man! I appreciate you checking this out!

friend, one more thing, humanoids is it available in spanish?

Thank you, my friend! I really appreciate that! Unfortunately I think Humanoids' books are only English and French right now, but one of my books, HIGH CRIMES from Image Comics has a Spanish version, but I'm not sure where to find it. I'll let you know if I find a link for it. Thank you, Cesar!

Totally agree. When you said “Day 2”- I thought to myself “he did all that in one day!?”

@@Ibrahim_M Thank you my friend. humanoids looks interesting, I hope that one day it will come out in Spanish

Thanks! It wasn’t flat black in the movie. They used a “flip flop” paint that was mostly black in appearance but changed color based on where you were standing and it had a satin finish. So I’m going to do a more satin finish on this.

Yessir!

Thanks for the info!

People love Batman!

Hi David! No worries, man! And thanks so much for coming back to tell me about this! I'm really stoked that you were able to find one first of all, as I know they're till kinda hard to track down, haha. I'm glad you gave it a shot and that you're happy with the results! And thrilled to know that you found this inspiring, man. It's why I go to the trouble of filming and posting this stuff, so thank you!

Thanks very much! I appreciate that a lot. Re: The airbrush; I find that it's better for detail work and not large coverage. It's also impossible to get the sparkly bits out of your brush, haha. Both Krylon and Rustoleum make color shifting paint that could look really cool on this, but my hesitation there is that they use pearlescent glitter in the mix, and if you consider the size of a granule of that stuff, it's great for a 1:1 sized car, but scaled down to 1:12 it looks way off and takes away from whatever realism you're able to capture on the smaller scale.

Thanks! The problem is that a lot of it doesn’t lend itself to recording for a lot of reasons, and also it’s a lot of work to edit down to footage that people ultimately skip anyway (according to RU-vid analytics). Also the videos would just be way too long (which again, people unfortunately don’t watch). So I try to edit everything down to give people the info they need and trim out the “fat” as it were. On this video for example, it’s over 20min long, and the average view duration out of 10k+ views is just over 7min. But I appreciate you checking it out!

@@Ibrahim_M Totally understand. I think I'm in the minority, I like watching some of the work especially the paining process. Anyway, keep up the good work!

@@CharlieChalk9790 Thank you! I'm right there with you; I LOVE process stuff and love to see every bit of it. If this channel becomes a thing that I can dedicate more time to, I might try to do a "Deleted Scenes" playlist of unedited raw footage or something.

Thanks! I think it would be way too small, unfortunately.

Thank you! I tried to make the steps easy enough to follow because I really think this thing becomes incredible with a bit of elbow grease.

@@Ibrahim_M I agree I think I want one and I’m going to build a diorama of the Batcave you have the neca version, standing next to it on a spinning pedestal

I appreciate you checking it out! Glad you were able to get ahold of one-- they've been tricky to track down. This thing would scale well with the SHF version for sure. I have the Mezco version and it has incredible articulation, but there are QC issues so I'm afraid to bend mine too far, lol.

@@Ibrahim_M got mine from Macy's when i saw someone posted a link saying they found them at Macy's.

@@FrankW1029 Nice! They seem to be more available now, which is great.

@@Ibrahim_M bought some supply and will work on the canopy first as I noticed something when test fitting my SHF Keaton; there's not enough shoulder room for the figure if the seat is on the side. the side of the passenger compartment looks like will need to be cut out.

@@FrankW1029 I wondered if that might be the case. I'm not planning to put mine in the car, so I'm not worried about it for me, but that's helpful for others to know. Thanks!

Thanks! Part 2 is hopefully going up later today. We should all be overly concerned with recycling! Haha

Thank you! Y'know, something other people have done (which I wish I'd have thought of!) was to use silver thumbtacks as the gas caps. Kinda perfect! You'd need to make small pilot hole first, or cut the pin piece off and just glue the round part to the car, but they look pretty good and most people have some already, haha.

@Ibrahim_M that's what I did think about doing, thank you

@@martyh5127 You're welcome!

Yeah I really like the paint I used for the canopy and have thought about using it for the whole thing, but ultimately I want a bit of that color-change property, and purposeful or not, I think the base plastic will give that once it's less shiny. But we'll see, I may end up painting the whole thing if I don't like it, haha. Good idea on the gas caps!

Nice! Yeah, it fits 6” very well. Too bad McFarlane’s own figures are 7”+

Hell yeah, man! That's awesome. I'm so glad this helped jumpstart things for your project. I started sanding with 800, then worked my way to 1000, 1200, and then 2000, I believe. Start with something that will take off the excess but not scratch things too much. As you go to a higher number, dab your fingertip in some water and wipe it over the surface right before you sand, and it will really help smooth things out. Good luck!

Thanks so much sir !! I was able to finish my canopy today I wish I can show you the results it’s awesome !

@@carlosstallion2175 LET'S GOOOO!!! I'm so glad to hear it, man. Well done!

Thanks to you !! But I appreciate it !(:

🙏🏼! It was harrowing, for sure, haha.