My new "Grail" piece.....Bobby C's 1:1 TDK Joker

Brent M

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I know many people have showcased Bob Causey's TDK Ledger Joker on this forum before, but I had to let everyone here who might be interested take a look at his latest work. First, a little history of this project and some acknowledgments for everyone who helped out with this project.

After wanting to do a 1:1 Joker statue for a while, back in May I finally decided on moving forward with the project. The first step was to see if Bobby could find time in his busy schedule to do a bust for me and fortunately he said yes. As anyone who has ever talked to Bobby before knows, he's probably the single nicest guy walking the face of the planet and I can never thank him enough for the work he did on this masterpiece. It's truly even better than I ever could have expected.

The next step was hunting down all the accurate clothing as I wanted to make sure a bust of his caliber would not be wasted on cheap eBay Joker clothes. So, I bought the vest, shoes, shirt, gloves, pants and tie from Indy Magnoli. I was able to get a pair of the screen accurate socks from Tabio, the company who supplied them for production of TDK. I bought the gray sport jacket from a local store that had one which I felt was "close enough" given how little of it is shown on the display. The final, and most important piece IMHO, was the long purple overcoat and thankfully fellow member Haywire(Ryan) had an accurate coat from Baron Boutique that had been modified to be as close to screen accurate as possible which he agreed to sell me. The final pieces to round out the display are a Gotham City manhole cover purchased from The Monster Company in the UK, a screen accurate switchblade knife and a brilliant Smith & Wesson M76 machine gun replica hand crafted by fellow member BornKilr(Spencer).

The display sits on a Da Vinci foam flexible mannequin that was modified and dressed by my good friend Jarod, who helped me out greatly over the last 5 months putting this whole thing together. In fact, there's no way I could have done this project without the help provided by him and fellow member DarthWhitey(Brad) who answered countless questions and guided me every step of the way in putting this statue together. So, a very big thanks to everyone who helped out in making this statue a reality and I hope you enjoy the pics of my new "grail" piece. :cool



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And here's a quick 1 min. video clip:


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Now on YouTube with slightly better video quality:

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Absolutely great piece! Congratulations!

One question about the coat though: Do you know if it is the standard wool-fabric Baron uses or is it a different one?

Thanks!
 
Actually I'm not sure. I know Ryan(Haywire) worked closely with them to get as close to screen accurate material as possible so he could probably answer your question better than I could. Thanks for the nice words.
 
Brent, I have to say I'm totally thrilled with how this all came out. I know how much research and time you've put into this thing, and to see it pay off like this is just fantastic. Again, amazing job!
 
Brent, I have to say I'm totally thrilled with how this all came out. I know how much research and time you've put into this thing, and to see it pay off like this is just fantastic. Again, amazing job!

Thanks, Ryan. Like I told you in the e-mail, your coat was really the "finishing touch" for this whole display and I absolutely love it. Thanks again for all your help and keep up the good work with your amazing Nolan collection. :cool
 
This Joker sculpt is still one of the best (if not the best) we've ever seen.

And the whole statue really gives everything a new dimension. Stunning!
 
bobbys work is amazing, good addition. Now wheres my stuff? lol


If you mean you're waiting on stuff from Bobby I hope you'll get it soon. I think the reason he takes a fair amount of time is because he cares so much about making everything he does PERFECT. I know he probably got tired of me bugging him about this piece, but he was too nice to tell me to just shut up about it. :lol
 
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