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This Just In: New 1/43 Pics – Guess What’s Still Missing?
HINT: Rhymes with “Cat Tray Snipes”.
Yep, hats off to Mattel again for skipping the extended Batray striping on another otherwise pretty nice model. Thanks to PMB! friend John Lemay for sending us these shots of his freshly-delivered-from-China 1/43 Batmobile. According to John, the bat-radar and antenna were shipped separately bagged from the car. Chances are that won’t be the case with the final packaged production model. Hey maybe check that baggie for the missing bat-ray stripes too! Ah well. Still a very nice looking 1/43 model. Looks just like a shrunk down 1:18 standard which is uh, good I guess. Though I am getting a bit sick of that juvenile-looking undercarriage. Now if we can just shrink Doug from Insane Detailing down, we can offer replacement parts for this scale too.
Elite 1/12 Batcycle Spotted
From China with love. Popping up on eBay right on schedule (or ahead of schedule, if you’re Mattel.) Looks like some revisions have been made -red striping, 4th fairing scallop etc. Will post better shots when I get one in.
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The call of the Siren…
Nope. Not Joan Collins this time. Just got in a very limited, exclusive run of the fantastic new all-aluminum, CAD-machined Sirens/Beacons for the 1:18 Hot Wheels Batmobile straight form Australia. After a first run was discarded for being a bit undersized, Mit and his team in Oz have produced a masterpiece. We now have three beacons for you to choose form in the Products section:
- Solid resin economy version
- 3-piece hollowed resin cage and clear red lens insert version that you assemble and paint silver (shown below, right)
- Completed ALUMINUM and clear red lens unit (shown below, left)
These are the best, most accurate 1st season 1966 Batmobile sirens I’ve ever seen and having them in metal is a bonus. Easily lit if desired.
L-R: New Aluminum Beacon, Resin Version
Original Mattel/Hot Wheels siren (can you say "Lego"?)
New Beacon on Mattel Hot Wheels Rollbar with Alex's Antlers
Front view sitting on Alex's replacement rollbar.
Side view on replacement rollbar (with I.D. lights)
