The Batmobile Is Ready For Launch, Mr Wayne, or How We Made A Batmobile-Pram for Comic Con

The part of our comic con cosplay that took the most time and energy was turning James's pram into a batmobile.

When we decided we were going to do it, it seemed like an amazing idea, and we figured it wouldn't be that hard, we'd just cut out some shapes, stick it to the pram and we'd have it done in no time.

Then we started working on it.

We started off with a couple of cardboard coffins that I'd picked up from work (they came out of coffin shaped guitar cases!)



The idea I had was that because of the shape of the coffin not a lot of cutting would need to be done, we could just snip off the ends and round them off a bit and then we'd be good to go. Except the cardboard proved pretty difficult to cut!

So, we started by spray painting the cardboard black. To be perfectly honest that's probably why it was so difficult to cut, but Corey said paint it, so we painted it.



Then we cut out the shape we needed, although it didn't look much like a batmobile, more like a weird rocket ship!



And then, obviously because the cardboard didn't agree with the paint the damn thing started to bend! This was a great source of panic for us! We didn't know whether to stick two pieces of cardboard together to straighten it out, or paint the other side too and see if that worked..



In the end we painted both sides of the cardboard and it kinda started to straighten out a bit.

So now came the time to add some detail, and this was my favourite part, it had to be obvious that it was the batmobile, so we started by putting the batman logo on the sides,





Then we decided we needed to make the front of the car, and the most logical way to do it was to attach it to the pram with some string.


We had a nice little fruit box type thing that we just slipped on the front, then we glued down the sides



Once the front was painted black we moved onto cutting out the fins and wheel arches, basically 2 large half moons, two smaller half moons and the two bat wing shapes, and then painted them black and stuck them on.



Now I added some simple silver lines to the arches and fins, just to make them stand out


Then we cut some circles from cardboard and painted them silver with black logos for the wheels



Then I drew up the bat logo on some cardboard

This was painted yellow and black, and had James written on the front in silver, and out of some extra cardboard we cut two headlights and painted them yellow



Now all that was left to do was add baby Batman



After a morning of crime fighting the batmobile turned out to be a good place to take a nap


Et voila, one batmobile-pram!







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