15mm Joker's head v 2.0

As I've written yesterday, I wanted to make 2 or three versions of the Joker's head before I move on to sculpting the whole character. Today I've finished the second one and I must say I'm much more happy with the result. Not only is his profile less 'flat', but the face is much more correct anatomically this time:

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15mm Joker WIP

So I had to take a break from the hobby for a while again - partly because of work, partly because of some personal fuckups that happened along the way. Today I have finally managed to do some sculpting again, making an attempt at 15mm Joker's head. I plan to do 2-3 versions of it, select the one I'm most content with and only then move on to sculpting the body.

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WIP: Gotham Olympus Club

As I've mentioned some time ago, I plan to add Maxie Zeus' Olympus Club to my 15mm Gotham - with the Arkham City version being my main inspiration for the piece:

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There will be some slight modifications, though - the neon sign reading "Olympus Club" instead of "Gotham City Olympus", a bit different look of the Zeus statue and different number of floors (two main floors and two tower floors).
Here are the first two WIP pictures:

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A closer look at the Zeus statue (click for the bigger version.

The Zeus statue was made with some pieces from an Italeri 1:32 gladiator set:

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The body comes from the third figure in the top row, the head from the first figure in the bottom row. The beard and hair were sculpted using ProCreate putty and the lightning bolt wireframe was made from a paperclip (I'll cover it with ProCreate later).

Knight Models posts their Batman character cards!

Great news - Knight Models finally made the stat cards for their Batman game available for free without the need for buying the KM miniatures! Follow the link here and click "View product details" next to the character whose card you want to download to get them.

On the side note: I know that I've been exceptionally quiet lately, but the situation at work has been a bit hectic lately and I haven't had much time for the hobby. I will try to post something later this week but can't promise that atm.

Finished the first Gotham building

Finally managed to wrap up the first building for my Batman/DC gaming - let me know what you think! Many thanks to Kris for his suggestions concerning the faded ads on the brick walls - I tried out both approaches (gluing the prints and airbrushing) and I think that they went out quite well. It was Warren Abox's idea at TMP forums to add the markings for the windows (white lines at the sides of each floor).

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Teaser: Decorating the Gotham city block

I'm slowly wrapping up the first Gotham building - the structure itself and the basic airbrushing is done. There are three main stages left:

• decorating the interior walls with printed floors and wallpapers
• painting the exterior
• adding decals (Batman-themed posters: "I believe in Harbey Dent", poster for the Grayson family show with "Canceled" bar, ad for the Iceberg Lounge... I printed a couple of these and plan on using them on most of my Gotham buildings)

I wouldn't be myself if I didn't post some WIP photos - so here you go, some teasers before I post the finished version (Saturday/Sunday probably):

Here's how the interior walls are going to look like...

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 ...and the exterior ones:

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I'll probably post a tutorial on doing the brickwork after I finish the building.

15mm Batmobile

The same TMP post that gave me an idea to use the cloaked figure from Rebel Minis as a base for my second version of Batman pointed me to the Hot Wheels model of Arkham Asylum Batmobile. Sadly, after digging through a bunch of Hot Wheels boxes in different toy shops in Cracow I was forced to look for it on eBay - and found out that when it comes to S&H costs for shipping blistered toy cars to Poland, they're nothing short of ridiculous. The S&H cost that is 8-10 times the price of the model? Erm... no. Luckily I've found a single auction with more reasonable pricing and today my Batmobile has arrived - as you can see below, it scales up really well to 15mm minis:

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It's a really nice model with some sharp details but it has its flaws: the wheels are the generic diecast toy ones, looking quite different from the original game model, the front and rear lights are just flat decals. Therefore before painting I want to sculpt the lights out of ProCreate putty and probably look for some better-looking wheels in my bits box.