The Dark Knight Rises Mask

13doctorwho

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• Jan 3, 2013

• #1

I was just curious, has anyone sculpted the Dark Knight Rises battle damaged Batman cowl from the first bane smack down. The one Bane carries off after breaking Batman.

I think it would be a cool project. I think it could be sculted and molded in a resin. I say resin because the cowl was said to be carbon fiber (in Batman Begins) which is kind of a resin, fiberglass mateial. I know carbon fiber is more complicated than that but the basic concept is similar to fiberlgass.

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SampleName

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• Jan 3, 2013

• #2

I believe it was kapow7 who had a resin TDK cowl that was broken. The movie poster was released and he turned it into a TDKR display. I'll let him chime in with pictures if he happens to see this.

 

Barricade

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• Jan 3, 2013

• #3

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Twinsen

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• Jan 3, 2013

• #4

In Batman Begins the cowl is said to be made of graphite (carbon). Carbon fiber (and kevlar) were used for the suit.

But to be honest that doesn't make much sense. A graphite cowl would be impossible to put on because you would never be able to squeeze your head through the neck opening.

For a "real world" Batman, a graphite shell (to protect the head and house the electronics) permanently inserted in a rubber cowl "skin" would be more plausible.

And it would actually match pretty well the way the cowl cracks and splits when Bane breaks it.

 

13doctorwho

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• Jan 3, 2013

• #5

Mr. K, you are totally right. As soon as you said it it clicked. I agree that in reality the graphite would be armor under a rubber mask, but I was streamlining the work to make the mask.

 

coofunkcurly

Sr Member

• Jan 3, 2013

• #6

Interestingly the cowl as seen above in your first post does not match how it actually 'broke' on screen.
In any event, we do plan to tackle this at some point soon.

 

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VaultUK

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• Jan 4, 2013

• #7

I don't have the broken cowl anymore I sent it to a member that was looking for one to complete his bane costume

 

Rdmaul

Sr Member

• Jan 4, 2013

• #8

Yup that cowl is sitting in my display for Bane, and as Kevin stated above the cowl in the first picture is not the same as the one Bane breaks off Bruces head!

Hot toys got the mask right in this photo!

 

coofunkcurly

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• Jan 4, 2013

• #9

Yup, HT got it very close if not exact. :thumbsup

 

SajaRawr

Active Member

• Jan 7, 2013

• #10

Im actually about to open a thread about this i already started working on the mask but i think i will do the movie poster version, oh by the way mine will not be sculpted from scratch im thinking about using other techniques