Tuesday 10 September 2019

Batman: Rogue's Gallery 4

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:


Bat-tally: 214/ 215 (99.5%)

6 comments:

  1. 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.

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    1. Thanks, Phil. I don’t think I captured the essence of Ra’s.

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  2. Beautiful, as always, Barks. I'm thinking that you might just sorta be almost having too much fun .

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    1. Biff! Ka-pow! This is a Very Serious Blog, I’ll have you know.

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  3. Wonderful work. There are some pretty cool minis here. You are almost done with this project! :O

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