My final bat-batch of villains! A bit of variety today.
Mad Hatter
The Mad Hatter is a predator, hunting for girls to be his perfect 'Alice'. He drinks psychedelic teas, and has mind control hats. I chose not to paint his chequered trousers.
The Mad Hatter
Batman: The Dark Knight #21 (2013)
Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Henchmen of the Mad Hatter in his Wonderland Gang.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Or vice versa.
The Wonderland Gang
Batman: The Dark Knight #16 (2013)
Ra's Al Ghul
A true arch-villain, the Demon's Head is centuries old thanks to the life-prolonging Lazarus pits. Such criminal facial hair. He looks a bit like an operatic piratical vampire, unfortunately.
Ra's Al Ghul
Bruce Wayne: The road home (2010)
The Penguin
The Penguin remains a classic bat-villain, despite having no powers beyond a mind for criminal enterprise. And an armoury of weaponised umbrellas.
The Penguin
Detective Comics #27 (2014)
Painting his henchmen's nets almost drove me mad. I chose not to paint the insides, and did the weights lilac to match Penguin. I'm not sold on this- should I go back to black?
Penguin's goons
Penguin and his flock
The Dark Knight #26 (2013)
Man-Bat
Gotham's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, scientist Dr Kirk Langstrom becomes the monstrously named Man-Bat with use of his bat serum. It's a large figure, and was quite fun to paint.
Man-Bat
The Dark Knight #28 (2014)
Mr Freeze
Mr Freeze is an expert in cryotechnology to bring his frozen sweetheart, Nora, back to life. But he can't tolerate warmth, and lives a life of crime. I wish the model had a glass dome. I added some icy slush effects with a paste of Woodland Scenics' 'Realistic Water' and 'Soft-flake snow' and Secret Weapon's 'Ground glass' for extra sparkles.
Mr Freeze
Freeze-Ray. Tell your friends.
Bane
Bane is a mercenary who can bulk himself up using the drug Venom, which is pumped into him from his backpack.
Bane
Venom Bane
Batman: The Dark Knight #6 (2012)
I quite like Tom Hardy's Bane, despite the absence of the signature luchador mask. Check out Bane's freestyle rap:
Another well painted bunch. I think you mad a sensible decision not to paint those chequered trousers although with Ras Al Ghul his facial hair varies from artist to artist, so you could have got away with a simple moustache rather than Hugh Jackmans stick on Wolverine chops.
Another well painted bunch. I think you mad a sensible decision not to paint those chequered trousers although with Ras Al Ghul his facial hair varies from artist to artist, so you could have got away with a simple moustache rather than Hugh Jackmans stick on Wolverine chops.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Phil. I don’t think I captured the essence of Ra’s.
DeleteBeautiful, as always, Barks. I'm thinking that you might just sorta be almost having too much fun .
ReplyDeleteBiff! Ka-pow! This is a Very Serious Blog, I’ll have you know.
DeleteWonderful work. There are some pretty cool minis here. You are almost done with this project! :O
ReplyDeleteThat I am!
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