The Superman Project

The Superman Project- November, 2007
A couple of years ago a customer at one of my shows asked me if I would be interested in restoring a couple of small fiberglass statues of cartoon characters he had. I said yes and restored Roadrunner and Wile E.Coyote. Restoration involved sanding, cleaning and repainting.

Life was good and I continued on my merry way. Then early this year the customer's father called and asked if I would be interested in restoring two more cartoon characters. I reluctantly agreed and took on Batman & Superman. These two were MUCH bigger: each character was over 9' tall and took two or three people to move. Both had been exposed to the elements back East and showed a lot of signs of wear.

After many months Batman is done and has been returned to his owner... now it is time for Superman. Like I said, he is about 9' from toe to outstretched hand, is made of old fiberglass and has metal reinforcing inside. He has a big bracket on his foot and is intended to be mounted on top of a building as if he were launching himself into flight. His cape is removable and it also will need restoring.

So now my Super Hero Project co-conspirator and I have Superman in the garage/ studio and the sanding/ stripping process has begun. Here are pictures of what he looked like at the beginning of the project (November)... I will put up more pictures as we progress.

And for those of you with the strange sense of humor: "Yes, I am stripping Superman."

Superman resting on my trusty cart, ready to be worked on	I couldn't resist this: Yes, Superman has a stick up his butt!! (actually it is one of the mounting posts for his cape)
Superman has beautiful blue eyes!! (Batman did too!)... but blue hair????	Superman's Cape (what was that old Jim Croce song?)

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