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You need one really good pick against a good (neutral) background so we can all vote on it and get you on the front page of the gallery.

Epically brilliant!

Wow, that's such a cool terrain piece. I love the amount of detail you've put into it.

Oooh! glowing green chemical goo!

Very cool, I hope you get re-enact the scene from the movie soon!

One itty bity thing to do with the signs- drip a little bit of ink down them, and peel up the edges just a tiny bit- maybe scrape off a corner or two. Signs like that in industrial areas are rarely fully intact.

That glowing vat is awesome. Great work as always, graven.

Paradigm wrote:So, so cool! Though the idea of that iconic and quite brutal and dramatic scene with Adam West is rather amusing!

I know, I know, but he's the only Batman I have painted up at present

GiraffeX wrote:That looks fantastic Graven, really like how the light lights up the vat.

Thanks bud. Still trying to work out if there's a better way to caputre the glow. Might try a longer exposure.

Camkierhi wrote:That is spectacular bud, really excellent piece.

Looks good old dirty, really good job on the weathering, and goo looks superb, so simple but soo effective.

Cheers, I am very happy with how the goo turned out, but I have used half a hundredweight of PVA and an entire tub of Nurgle's Rot to get there

Gitsplitta wrote:You need one really good pick against a good (neutral) background so we can all vote on it and get you on the front page of the gallery.

Okay can you define neutral? Black, or another colour? I reckon as it stands the best pic is this one:

That sort of angle?

Camkierhi wrote:

TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:Epically brilliant!

Cheers mate

sockwithaticket wrote:Wow, that's such a cool terrain piece. I love the amount of detail you've put into it.

Thanks, just had to get it feeling right. I wasn't even sure the desk would work but I think it's nice to have a point of contrast with the rest of the piece.

shasolenzabi wrote:Oooh! glowing green chemical goo!

You can never have enough goo

Knightley wrote:Very cool, I hope you get re-enact the scene from the movie soon!

Me too! God only knows when I'll get a chance to play next, that's the thing.

Anvildude wrote:One itty bity thing to do with the signs- drip a little bit of ink down them, and peel up the edges just a tiny bit- maybe scrape off a corner or two. Signs like that in industrial areas are rarely fully intact.

Thanks man, appreciate that, I'll try it on the one on the reverse in the first instance and see how it turns out.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:That glowing vat is awesome. Great work as always, graven.

Cheers amigo

Thanks one and all for your feedback and kind words, very humbled.

For interest's sake, here's what it's made from:
Cake board
CDs
CD holder
Lego Ladder
2 Slotta Bases
Cable tidy
Bendy Straw
MDF offcuts
Deadzone railing
Deadzone corners
Olive tub lid
LED
Cake dowel
Plasticard (plain/Treadplate)
Miscast mystery piece of FW resin
Sprue
Assorted GW oddments: Lights, a comms pack, some handles, a chimera plough bracket
Guitar wire
Paper
GS
PVA

Quite the build!

So from here on things are going to quite down a bit. Baby's still not here, but at least that's that done!

Cheers, and many many thanks once more,
Graven

That is one sweet looking piece of terrain.

EDC

^ Cheers bro.
@ Anvildude better?

Looks amazing. Lighting oh so Lovely!
Only critique would be to goo up the inside walls of the vat a bit.

^ Cheers! Fair comment, I shall add some gooey rivulets on the interior.

The problem with the light background is that it washes out all of the details and color on the actual model. Anything more neutral to dark (so... from tanks or greys on down) would reduce this effect.

OK. I can easily do black, red or blue?

Black then. The other colors will affect your camera's color processor. In general terms... you don't want the background to be more extreme than what you're taking a photo of. At least that's my experience.

That is just amazing, Graven. Amazing work.

Sign looks a lot better with the drips. I think those sorts of 'final detail' things are important for miniatures- stuff like dust traces and the effects of liquid and light weathering, instead of just physical and chemical weathering.

Gitsplitta wrote:Black then. The other colors will affect your camera's color processor. In general terms... you don't want the background to be more extreme than what you're taking a photo of. At least that's my experience.

OK, thanks mate for the advice.

Anpu-adom wrote:That is just amazing, Graven. Amazing work.

Cheers buddy.

Anvildude wrote:
Sign looks a lot better with the drips. I think those sorts of 'final detail' things are important for miniatures- stuff like dust traces and the effects of liquid and light weathering, instead of just physical and chemical weathering.

Indeed, and have now added more! Thanks bud.

So here's my final pics, I think. Please vote if you're so minded! I've also add more goo, corrosion and general damage as suggested.

Not sure which of these two is better as my Final Photo:




Is the one without batman slightly blurry? Can't tell any more.

Console


Glowy goo


Goo by night!


More corrosion around signs



Vat now with added drips



And lastly a view with the wip factory as a whole, which isn't for the contest but I just thought you might like to see.


So vote early, vote often, or something like that
Any suggestions for other angles or late alterations, just lmk!

Cheers y'all,
Graven

Graven - that vat is simply brilliant. seriously - great job there and the way it lights up/glows......fething inspirational!!! nice one fells

Voted! Don't give us a chioce. Pick the best one and post it. If there's more than one angle, blend them into a single shot and post that. The more photos you post, the more likely that the votes will get spread out and none of the pics will get enough votes to register.

Oh well, if you insist



I see folk are treating the first pic as the "primary" one. Works for me many thanks once more, chums.

Perfect!

Lovely job, time to vote

Gitsplitta wrote:Perfect!

High praise indeed!

Ruglud wrote:Lovely job, time to vote

Thanks man

Right. A question for you to consider: how should I paint my Arkham City Batman?


3 options:

Black and grey, like the game?
All black, like Nolan / Burton?
Or blue and grey, in classic comic style?

I do have another Batman, the Arkham Knight version, also, who's standing on a gargoyle (I'm leaning towards him being all black, but not set in stone).

Thanks, once more, for your thoughts!
Graven

I would go for black or black and grey...but would have my doubts because of my limitations as a painter. But given your past work you can pull it off.

That Vat is amazing, a beautiful piece of terrain.

All black with blue/grey highlight glazes. paint paint!!!!

My vote is a more classic comic blue and get, but unlike the Adam West one, a very, very dark blue (basically, start the cape from black and blend your way up to navy blue on the very extreme edges)

This might help, the AC in-game model with various different skins on. Might be some inspiration there:

OK guys, here's how we get that photo of that amazing terrain piece on the front page... it's a simple formula.

1) You vote on the photo.
2) You post here. The formula for the gallery is driven by a combination of votes and traffic.

Go!

Voted on the new pic, I'll say again that the piece itself is bloody fantastic!