Build thread - Batmobile

[nextlevelfab]

Saw some thread on here a while back where a guy assembled a kit fiberhair and resin batmobile...sticky stuff. I got a english wheel ..goin all metal on mine

 

[1953mercury]

What! are you some kind of Joker! Sorry couldn't help myself. Pretty monumental, or perhaps monumetal would be more accurate. Looking forward to seeing it come together. Cheers, Mike

 

[Balor]

 

[Chaz]

More pics, please.... Looks awesome!

 

[Bigblue&Goldie]

I'm in for this!

 

[greaseSlinger57]

Following!


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[Henricogolfer]

Looking forward to this!

 

[Hammer1963]

Wow!

 

[Two Door]

Holy Metalwork, Batman!!!

 

[Kevin54]

Alright man. This is a crock of BS. You come out of the gates with a Batmobile tease, and no more pics??? Gotta put up or shut up.

 

[nextlevelfab]

No problemo. I built many a fiber bat, after a while you get sick of the stikyshit. I based this metal bat on my combo of original Barris bat panels and panels I sculpted that came together as one into this fiber bat you see here....ya its my ' Original '. Made molds of this and a few bods.

 

[nextlevelfab]

Re: Build thread - TV Batmobile

Once you got a solid form its a helluva lot easier to match shaped sheet steel to it than going on guesswork..

 

[nextlevelfab]

 

[nextlevelfab]

The wing tops were a liitle bit too big and long for me to fab alone so took templates off the fiber bat wings and sheet steel down to a metal fab shop that had a Giant roll former and we rolled and we rolled 'till we got that double inside curve just right then I folded the top edges over with the tipping wheel on my bead roller to keep em straight and to provide a flange for the wing sides to attach to-

 

[Bighead38]

Need to follow this.

 

[PelicanPines]

I'm gonna watch this... thoughts of bat pole dancing excites me.

 

[bad_idea]

Subscribed.

 

[NYBODYMAN]

Grabs popcorn....I'm in.

 

[1949 caddyman]

I’m in also. A friend of mine had a fiberglass one that was beautiful.

 

[gte718p]

That is certainly next level. Subscribing

 

[JCQuick]

Saw some thread on here a while back where a guy assembled a kit fiberhair and resin batmobile...sticky stuff. I got a english wheel ..goin all metal on mine/QUOTE]

You are correct last post i saw it was involved in a crash while going to an event. Owner was dealing with insurance

cool build you got going on

 

[nextlevelfab]

Saw some thread on here a while back where a guy assembled a kit fiberhair and resin batmobile...sticky stuff. I got a english wheel ..goin all metal on mine/QUOTE]

You are correct last post i saw it was involved in a crash while going to an event. Owner was dealing with insurance

cool build you got going on

Really? you got a link to that crash thread? Post I was referring to was a static museum piece, car collection fixture....on here somewhere.

 

[Kevin54]

Who was the member on here that had one of the 4 Batmobiles made. He lived in Michigan or Canada i think. He built an ice rink for his kids.......

Here's a build and accident thread from a members friend.....https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=319635&highlight=batmobile&showall=1

 

[nextlevelfab]

Ahh, I did hear of that incident hit and run. Yes that replica is owned by a fellow metal fabricator by the name of Bill in Maryland.
Meanwhile back at the cave some of the smaller steel shaping ...

 

[Bronson]

I posted the story about my friend Bill and his Batmobile.
He is still driving it regularly and doing charity events with it.
Watching this with interest!

 

[nextlevelfab]

Its been a some years in the making project. I got to the midway point where I could continue with the bat details or make it into a 1955 Futura ..which has never been done before in metal while several batcar versions have been made in metal. The futura being what the TV Batmobile started off as- a concept car. So I built a fiber Futura as a buck for metal shaping

 

[nextlevelfab]

Finnicky **** that takes hours...top canopy raised rails, a long reversed curve

 

[nextlevelfab]

 

[nextlevelfab]

A 2 piece ordeal

 

[bonneyman]

Wow, this looks like it's gonna be great!

 

[Growlertdi]

yes, Have some.. gonna be great.

 

[drivesitfar]

NLF: holy bat stuff. i'm in!!

 

[nextlevelfab]

Back end details getting sorted-

 

[drivesitfar]

I'm wondering if you ever finished this or did COVID 2020 stop it dead. you ok and how about a few updates?

cheers

 

[californiamilleghia]

impressive , love to see the tools you used

 

[nextlevelfab]

All these bead rolls I bought for the project ...only really needed 3 of ' em.

 

[nextlevelfab]

Sorry havent posted much more on my project ... member here 'amazzen' was slammin the F+^^ out of my metal work on a bat forum....he went on and on and on, said I was a ' hack ' and should be banned from that message board and barred from building anything. nice guy...not.

 

[nextlevelfab]

Anyways...lol, onwards and upwards. The cowl and fenderwell edge driprail on the Tv car ie the 55 Futura is deep and wide so I used a eastwood pneumatic shrinker (which they dont sell anymore) and two pieces of sheared metal strips I folded to form the driprail by following the perimeter pattern on my ' glass 66....just like the # 1 Bat.

 

[nextlevelfab]

This is the Eastwood shrinker stretcher...was a great tool for about $900. For some reason they discontinued it. Eddie Paul metal fabricator in Long Beach So Cal also sold the same tool.

 

[nextlevelfab]

The main forming tool I use is a Mittler power bead roller...amazing what this tool can do.