JaxAndTheMoon
Sr Member
Hello!
I believe this is my first thread over here in the DC section, but my love for Batman has finally meshed over with my prop building. I've never been one for full sized suits since I don't cosplay (not yet at least) but I regularly check up on the Batsuit Build threads, and I love the work in there. So with the latest release of Batman: The Telltale Series, I noticed the gadget designs were really interesting. I love the smoke grenades and the new grapple gun. I figured I'd take a crack at it on my own terms.
The journey began collecting reference images for the grapple. Unfortunately there aren't any dead on views of the grapple gun in a view that would allow for easy 3D replicating. So I pulled the best images I could, and used Batman's hands as reference for the size.
I tweaked the brightness and contrast for maximum detail analysis. I began to draw my own blueprints, and using my own hand as a basis of size reference to match up as much as I can with Batman's hands. My hands are rather large so I figured doing a 1:1 with my own hand compared to Batman's hand was reasonable.
I decided to make the "closed" or "deactivated" version. I noticed that when he fires it, two pulleys open up as the front end extends out and fires the grapple. So I figured making the version that would hang on the belt or be displayed would look better.
It took me about an hour or so, but this is what I've got so far.
It's a rather large gun once it gets drawn out fully, but I guess it's not that unreasonable as far as size goes. Soon, I'll be uploading my scans into Blender and begin the modeling stage.
Not a long post I guess, but I just thought I'd throw this out there for you guys. Let me know what you think!
I believe this is my first thread over here in the DC section, but my love for Batman has finally meshed over with my prop building. I've never been one for full sized suits since I don't cosplay (not yet at least) but I regularly check up on the Batsuit Build threads, and I love the work in there. So with the latest release of Batman: The Telltale Series, I noticed the gadget designs were really interesting. I love the smoke grenades and the new grapple gun. I figured I'd take a crack at it on my own terms.
The journey began collecting reference images for the grapple. Unfortunately there aren't any dead on views of the grapple gun in a view that would allow for easy 3D replicating. So I pulled the best images I could, and used Batman's hands as reference for the size.
I tweaked the brightness and contrast for maximum detail analysis. I began to draw my own blueprints, and using my own hand as a basis of size reference to match up as much as I can with Batman's hands. My hands are rather large so I figured doing a 1:1 with my own hand compared to Batman's hand was reasonable.
I decided to make the "closed" or "deactivated" version. I noticed that when he fires it, two pulleys open up as the front end extends out and fires the grapple. So I figured making the version that would hang on the belt or be displayed would look better.
It took me about an hour or so, but this is what I've got so far.
It's a rather large gun once it gets drawn out fully, but I guess it's not that unreasonable as far as size goes. Soon, I'll be uploading my scans into Blender and begin the modeling stage.
Not a long post I guess, but I just thought I'd throw this out there for you guys. Let me know what you think!
