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Miniatures Adventure => SuperHero Adventures => Topic started by: War In 15MM on July 21, 2015, 06:38:03 PM
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At the swap meet this weekend I picked up a kid’s meal toy in the form of The Penguin driving his Penguin car. While I have no knowledge of this car actually existing, the toy only cost me 50 cents, and it looked like it could be a fun little project. I had some resin cast upper bodies/drivers that I had been using with my kid’s meal Atlantis the Lost Empire vehicles so I removed the oversized Penguin that came with the toy and replaced him with the Atlantis figure which I gave a new head taken from HeroClix Penguin #024/Cosmic Justice. From that point on it was just a case of giving the kid’s meal toy and its new driver a new paint job. I’m pretty happy with the way it came out. Hope you enjoy it too. I provide a picture of the original toy and a couple of my makeover.
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Very cool, bizarrely I've got this one and the joker car from the same series in my painting queue to do the same to! Great minds think alike lol
But having seen your last picture, I'm going to have to track down the Catwoman car too
Excellent inspirational work
Regards
Jim
Edit: I went straight onto ebay and managed to snag 2 of those Catwoman cars for £6 including postage. Thanks very much for the inspiration
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Jim, I love your repaints. Glad you enjoyed the kid's meal Penguin car. I look forward to seeing what you do with the Catwoman car. Richard
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Awesome. Mad but awesome. As Jack Nicholson as Joker said "where does he get those wonderful toys". It not like you can walk into West Coast Customs and buy one. Unless he threatens to break their legs. It's a thought I ponder from time to time. It's even more insane than Danny Devito's giant bath duck mobile.
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Great work! The colours are fantastically crisp and perfect for the Penguin.
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Thanks for the generous comments. I think it was a great swap meet find at a great price, and the redo worked out really well... The Penguin deserves a crazy ride. Thanks again. Richard
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lol lol lol
Brilliant!
:-*
This range would also make good cars for a fairground carousel.
Pretty sure that would work pretty well for Batman gaming, a fairground setting.
;)
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Mason, thanks for writing and the very kind word! I hope you get a chance to bring the fairground carousel to life or maybe bumper cars. Thanks again. Richard
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Sorry I missed this one Richard. The Penguin does look great in his new car. 8) The swap meet strikes again!
Rob
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Rob, thank you. I made another kid's meal Batman-related find this Saturday at the swap meet. It is the Carl's Jr Joker's Car or Jorkermobile from 2000. It had been handled rather roughly (teeth marks evident) when I got it, but since it was only $1 I couldn't pass it up as it had some very nice detail associated with it. When I got home I tried to find it on eBay but couldn't find even one of the exact toy I had though I found several that were similar but less nicely appointed. Anyway, I spent a little time on Saturday cleaning it up with a fine sanding stick and then put a coat of black paint over the car's body. On Sunday I gave it a new paint job using the colors of the original toy. All in all it came out pretty nice. I hope to take some pictures of it next to one of the Heroclix Joker figures and post them here. Thanks again for writing. Always good to hear from you. Richard
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Very cool. I'm sure I had that toy as a kid!
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Saturday I made my weekly visit to the swap meet, and one of the treasures I found during my adventure was a Carl’s Jr. kid’s meal Jokermobile from 2000. I have seen versions of kid’s meal Jokermobiles before but never this one. This one is a little larger and more detailed than the one I have often seen in the past. Because this one was a bit special and only $1, I bought it despite the fact that it had been roughed up quite a bit. When I got it home I began cleaning up the dents in the plastic (probably tooth marks) with a fine sanding stick. I never got all the bad spots out because it would have taken away too much car but I got it good enough that it was worth painting. On Saturday I painted the body black and cleaned up the face and the two playing cards on the front. This Sunday (before going to the swap meet again) I began applying the first coat of paint. I kept the color scheme of the original toy. All in all, I’m pretty happy with the way it came out. I was going to include a picture of the original toy taken off eBay but I couldn’t find one so what you see here is my finished work. The figures standing beside the car are a Heroclix Joker figure (the paint on the Heroclix figure is original) and a Horrorclix figure modified to be part of the Joker’s crew of henchmen.
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Lovely smooth brushwork.
:-* :-*
With a little modification that could see use as a sci-fi vehicle.
Shame that they don't seem to be about much.
:-[
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Now that, sir, is the mutts nutts!
Looks perfect in scale and style for heroclix, and a fantastic idea to repurpose the horrorclix figure as a joker henchman.
Yet another of your ideas that you can consider stolen lol
Shame that we don't have Carl jrs in the UK, chances of getting my hands on one are zero sadly.
Regards
Jim
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Thank you fairoaks024. Appreciate the kind words. Richard
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That's an awesome looking Jokermobile! I've never seen that design before.
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Great looking Jokermobile. :)
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obsidian3d and leonmallett, thanks to both of you for the kind words. From what I have seen for the Batman related kid's meal vehicles, this Jokermobile is probably the nicest in terms of detail. I'd never seen this version before until I found it at the swap meet and when I looked for it on eBay, I found other Jokermobiles but not this one... guess I was very lucky to get the one I did. Thanks again for writing. Richard
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Your joker gang clowns have impressed me Richard.
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Thanks Rob. I really like that HorrorClix figure... crazy stuff. Richard
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Thanks to your thread Richard, I've been on the lookout for that Carl's jr jokermobile and have tracked one down on ebay through a Canadian seller,
Really looking forward to painting it when it arrives.
The collectibles traders on ebay owe you a commission lol
Regards
Jim
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Jim, thank you. I'm glad I could be of help. I think you will have a lot of fun with the Jokermobile when it arrives. I've seen a couple different kid's meal versions of this but this particular version is a great size for the HeroClix figures and has some very good detail for a kid's meal toy. Richard
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A couple weeks ago I found The Penguin’s Umbrella Jet by Kenner Toys in a pile of broken toys at the swap meet. I immediately fell in love with the umbrella bombs it carried under each wing and since it was only $1 and appeared to be in pretty good shape (I’d never seen one before so I was guessing about that), I bought it. The big obstacle was the fact that it was intended to be a single-seat plane for a huge figure of The Penguin. I needed to enclose the cockpit area to allow the impression that The Penguin was flying an aircraft intended to carry several 28mm-size figures rather than only huge figure. In addition to enclosing the cockpit (I used Evergreen plastic for that), I added a rear/push propeller. At the swap meet last week I found a broken toy airplane (approximately 1:48 scale) with a good 4-bladed propeller for 50 cents. I drilled the nose of the propeller out so it would slip over the existing rear projection on the Umbrella Jet. Once these changes were made I built a stand so the plane could fly (made from Evergreen plastic and Milliput), and gave the plane a new paint job/basically the original color scheme. I’ve provided some pictures below. The figure is one of the HeroClix Penguins. I've included a picture of the box lid for the plane in case anyone is interested in looking for one.
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