Custom Batcave Diorama - "Design Your Display"
Here is a custom display, that works well with your Batman Collection and the cool thing is , if you get bored with it, you can change it around.
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After a long day, The Dark Knight steps out of his elevator, and says "Finally the new floors are in."
These floors were done by a sheet of granny grating at Walmart, and tacky glued down to a decorated board..Primed, paint with ruddy brown, flat black and silver. In the back ground you see the elevator made from a Justice League Tower wall. It is repainted and glued down to a spinning "yes I said spinning" platform. In which is also epoxy glued down to a piece of wood that is shaped like a " L ". Then decorated with foam blocks & kitty litter to accent as the Batcave. Primed and painted also.
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Batman receives supplies for his new weapons vault
"Time to get organized!"
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I added a couple of cases from the Batman Begins toyline. I made a work bench out of a construction site platform, covered with granny grating. Primed and painted like the floor to match. Some crates are from Spiderman and Marvel Figure Factory.
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I trimmed out some shelving from cd cases, covering those also with granny grating made the perfect storage space for my Dark Knight. Then I took misc weapons and such for decorations.
"So happy to get my Batarangs organized."
"Time to start on the second shelf"
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"Weapons Room coming along nicely"
Tabs are glued within the elevator to make it a weapons vault.
"All this work, makes me want to remodel upstairs"
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After going up the elevator . Batman
brings his tools.
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Out of the elevator, Batman stands on Level 2. Now as you can see unlike the other floor this one has more of a high tech look. It is easy to do. I took a deck of old playing cards, cut them up in various sizes and shapes. Then glued them down with tacky glue and let it set over night. Prime and paint. TA DA!!!!!!!!!!! Simple and cheap.
But here is the catch, don't think you have enough room for two floors on your shelf-- not to worry...
Level 1 and L2 and are the same pc. The base is double sided to save room, but by being creative I achieved two different looks.
HEY! What's going on why is the elevator spinning NO WAY ITS THE ----------- BATCOMPUTER !!!!!!!!!!
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Surprise!!!!!! No Batcave is complete without the famous Batcomputer. The Bat's PC is attached to the back of the spinning platform.
So one minute it is a elevator, then a weapons closet and now the Bat's PC. This is a cast/mold of the Batman PC from the Wayne Manor Playset. So the cast was made then I cut it up into pc's to make it fit on the curved wall.
Then I added some hoses from a Nascar car kit, to give the electrical look. Primed and painted. Then printed up some screens from the Jokers page to an EBay page even a Matrix screen for giggles.
Sorry that screens aren't clearer, the brights lights give them a glare.
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The Bat chair is combination of Professor X's wheelchair, dowel rod, washers, and a little bit of apoxy sculpt.
The Batcomputer room would be empty without a couple of trophies to brighten it up.
First trophy is a Mini-Bust, of the famous Joker. Cut a figure in half , primed in black and gave it a metallic wash. Placed within a plastic case and glued to a candleholder.
Second is a reference to the old school. Back in the day, Batman had a large Penny as a trophy after a fight with the Penny Plunderer, in 1947. Well I don't have a large penny, so I made a case with a stack of pennies and in display front in center is a 1947 wheat penny.
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The third trophy is a second reference to the old school. Famous T-rex. This was a simple custom of a $0.99 toy, primed and painted with many washes and translucent colors "with help from my boy - Hans". I wanted to have some references to the old school, I might not have done it the same way as the comics, so I wanted to make note.
Now for the most personal trophy Batman has, a small memorial to his parents. A larger candle holder with a large case contains the famous pearl necklace and rose on the brick road.The road is sculpted, rose is from a Dawn figure and sculpted on to a paperclip, with a small pearl necklace made from beads and fishing line. Also in the back ground is a picture of Mr. Wayne (from Batman Begins)".
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Bat Pc on the "L" base. Made to fit any corner that you want it one.
Over view of the weapons floor.... etc
Weapons/Batsuit vault in the other corner.
Another view of the Bat PC room.
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Here is everything , pic below.
I tried creating a Batcave that had a little bit of everything. At the same time still moveable parts to where if you got bored you could change the look and still not take up anymore room. Small setup but alot of extra's. Enjoy So much detail within this, I know I missed some things , so have any questions let me know. thanks and be blessed.!!!!!!
This page was last updated: May 30, 2008
