1955 Lincoln Futura Concept
Build Date 1997

Revell's Lincoln Futura was the very first model car kit I ever built. That was back around 1957 or so.

For many years, the Futura was a very rare and much sought-after kit. A lot of that had to do with the fact that the1:1 vehicle was modified in the mid-60s into TV's Batmobile.

Revell reissued the kit in the early 1990s. Like the original kit, the reissue was molded in a pale green. However my research revealed that it was actually painted an iridescent blue-white.

I used an airbrush to paint it a specially mixed blue-white paint with a pearlescent overcoat to try to get as close as possible to the original vehicle's paint job.