Bat Cube Build Slideshow

Behold the completed Bat Cube! 

For a look at the entire build process check out the slideshow below. 

Batcube Complete

The Batcube is finished! Here are the specs:

• Materials: foamcore, poster board, enamel spray paint, acrylic paint, hot glue, white glue

• Height: 24.5"

• Width: 14"

• Depth: 15"

• Capacity: 162 Heroclix figures, 1 character card notebook, 1 map box, 1 accessory box, 1 print and play card box, 1 dice bag

 

This photo shows the character storage trays as well as the inner components. The three inner boxes were finished with a smooth bronze finish with a blue and green patina. The exterior of the Batcube is finished with a rough/pebbled texture and a distressed steel/alloy finish with blue and green patina.

 

The character trays are finished in a silver hammered steel texture.

The figures are stored on three removable trays, set into circular cups that accommodate the character's bases. Heroclix have two different base sizes. The tray cups fit the larger bases. An insert that fits the smaller bases adapts them to the larger cups.

Each side of the Batcube displays a different version of the Bat Symbol. The front sports the '89 Tim Burton style.

The left side displays the "Dark Knight" version.

The back displays the version used in the comics beginning in '39.

The right side features a somewhat stylized version of the '66 TV Bat Symbol.

The top box contains 3D game tokens, 2D game tokens and miscellaneous accessories. The smallest box holds Print and Play "feats" cards. The largest box is the map box.

The Bat Symbol on the map box is incised rather than extruded so that the medium sized internal box can set levelly on top of it. The small card box fits beside it.

Now that this project is complete I'll begin work on a carrying case specifically designed to house my Star Trek Away Team Heroclix.
 

More Batcube WIP

 Gee, the Batcube is pretty... cubic. My wife thinks the legs are too much, but I say the legs are the only thing keeping it from being Herman Munster's lunchbox.

This is the Batcube with its black undercoat. Next I'll dry-brush metallic silver all over it to give it a weathered metal look. If I do it right the thing will look pretty imposing. I want it to look like something they would call the bomb squad in for if someone found it on the street corner. (It is perfectly harmless of course.)

This is an internal component. I decided to go with a bronze finish for it.

Tomorrow I'll tell you what the thing is.