Raine24
New Member
Hello, everyone! I've wanted a full set of '89 gadgets since, well, '89, and have recently decided to make it happen by making 3D models based on all the available reference for eventual printing & finishing. My goal is to have every Bat gadget as accurately modeled & scaled as possible and available for people to print. I'm about halfway done with the equipment in the vault door, and making steady progress on the rest of it.
For most of the items there's enough imagery out there to get pretty darn close, but the most elusive thing has been the remote for the Batmobile.
Maybe 15 years ago I saved photos of what was believed to be the base that the flip-top microphone had been attached to (the mic itself was gone) and if the thread still exists on the internet I can't find it. But I've still got the pics and have been doing my best to figure out how the flip-top would have looked/worked.
Some example pics of what I've been recreating:
And my progress so far. I've got to tighten up a lot of the details, but it's like... 95% there? It's currently scaled so that the two bottom openings loosely fit AA-size batteries to power the light (through the headphone jack on top) and I plan on designing a plug on the bottom to hold the batteries in and complete the circuit.
And of course there's the flip-up mic, where my only reference is the "Stop" shot in the movie, and this low-res montage of BTS pics:
Judging by the lack of a light on this side when he commands the Batmobile outside of Axis, it looks like they pulled a Spock for this scene and had him hold it backwards so the "interesting" side would face the camera. I'm working as best I can from the slightly out of focus and blown out screens, but I think I have the basic geometry of the mic down pretty close. The bar connecting the mic to the hinge pin is a total mystery so is mostly a placeholder right now, but there does appear to be a large tab on the side to aid in opening it. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that my estimated dimensions almost perfectly matched the existing base model and needed only the smallest adjustments to slot into it.
I need to tweak the mechanism, but I think I've got the basic idea figured out for how it's sprung between positions and retained in the base. I did a few extra renders to demonstrate my idea of what the prop would have looked like.
And that's my progress so far! If anyone has dimensions, knows what model kit parts have been glued down to it, has more pics, or even just better versions of the existing pics, it would be much appreciated so very much. Thanks for looking!
For most of the items there's enough imagery out there to get pretty darn close, but the most elusive thing has been the remote for the Batmobile.
Maybe 15 years ago I saved photos of what was believed to be the base that the flip-top microphone had been attached to (the mic itself was gone) and if the thread still exists on the internet I can't find it. But I've still got the pics and have been doing my best to figure out how the flip-top would have looked/worked.
Some example pics of what I've been recreating:
And my progress so far. I've got to tighten up a lot of the details, but it's like... 95% there? It's currently scaled so that the two bottom openings loosely fit AA-size batteries to power the light (through the headphone jack on top) and I plan on designing a plug on the bottom to hold the batteries in and complete the circuit.
And of course there's the flip-up mic, where my only reference is the "Stop" shot in the movie, and this low-res montage of BTS pics:
Judging by the lack of a light on this side when he commands the Batmobile outside of Axis, it looks like they pulled a Spock for this scene and had him hold it backwards so the "interesting" side would face the camera. I'm working as best I can from the slightly out of focus and blown out screens, but I think I have the basic geometry of the mic down pretty close. The bar connecting the mic to the hinge pin is a total mystery so is mostly a placeholder right now, but there does appear to be a large tab on the side to aid in opening it. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that my estimated dimensions almost perfectly matched the existing base model and needed only the smallest adjustments to slot into it.
I need to tweak the mechanism, but I think I've got the basic idea figured out for how it's sprung between positions and retained in the base. I did a few extra renders to demonstrate my idea of what the prop would have looked like.
And that's my progress so far! If anyone has dimensions, knows what model kit parts have been glued down to it, has more pics, or even just better versions of the existing pics, it would be much appreciated so very much. Thanks for looking!