Whatever floats your boat Andy Pearson builds the Round 2 Batboat


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Inset: Batboat box bits. Below left:


contrast undercoat to cockpit and rear deck.


Below right:


cockpit and rear deck.


Bottom left: seats and jet nozzle. Bottom right:


Batboat deck with main paint job.


CCASIONALLY REVIEWERS OF MODEL KITS are presented with a situation where they have a perfectly adequate subject to discuss but there’s not a great deal to say about it. That’s not a failing of this Polar Lights Classics Reborn Round 2 kit; in truth it’s one of its strengths as far as the hobbyist


is concerned. You read the instructions, take the bits out of the box, paint them, stick them together and, er, that’s it. Wonderful… but it does make for a rather short article.


What we have here is a 1:25 scale injection moulded kit, with some chromed and clear parts, aimed at skill level 2. That’s what it says on the box and that’s what you get: no difficulties to overcome in an interesting and creative way and no problems at all, so let’s get on with a very basic build. The first step was to clean all the polystyrene parts with methylated spirits, prime them with Halfords automotive primer and start painting. It is proposed that one can paint the kit as the classic Batboat or as the version seen in the TV series. Having looked at a number of references and images on the Internet I was rather at a loss to spot the difference. The real boat was designed by Robert R. Hammond and Mel Whitley of the Glastron Boat Company in Austin, Texas and was based on one of


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