Mediocre Modeler

Within the first few minutes of the movie I could tell it wasn’t going to get any better. Once they let loose with the slip on the ice sound effect the tone was set for disaster. But it wasn’t a complete failure. I’m not sure where they were going with some of the designs. And at the time, the fact that the Robin costume was the Nightwing costume had to be brought to my attention from one of my buddies that is and avid comic reader. I picked the Batmobile and Redbird model kits out of shear collectors mentality. And they were the only kits released in the US. The Batmobile I built, the Redbird is in pieces around my model area. Never did like that design. And with that, the movie was forgotten.

Some time last year I stumbled upon the Cartoon Networks DC Nation and Young Justice. The first season introduces us to the team of young “Sidekicks” and there desire to be treated as equals despite their age. The stories were great and not to juvenile. The second season starts five years later with the leader of the team being Nightwing. Up to this point I have only seen small bits of Nightwing in animation. It was great to see the interaction between Nightwing and the new Robin, Tim Drake. And thus began my search for a Nightwing kit.

     Its small, with very few parts. I don’t know if it was by design or happenstance, but this figure seems to be in scale with my 3.75″ JLA action figures. This kit only took about two hours to complete. There were a few things I could have added like weapons. Or  highlight some of the bat symbols on the costume. But it looks great as it is.

This was a quickie build. It’s nice to get a project started and finished in an afternoon. And, not feel as thou you just slapped glue and paint on some plastic for the sack of doing something. Sometimes the quickie build is just what you need to get the juices flowing to start one of the big projects. This kit definitely has done its job as Nightwing is added to the collection of heroes.