1966 Batcave

SteveStarkiller

Sr Member

• Oct 6, 2015

• #1

Something I've been working on in my spare time, mainly to distract myself from obsessing too much about the Force Awakens.

The 60s Batman was my introduction into that world, by way of a Batmania Marathon in 1988. My grandma recorded eight hours of it, and I still have the VHS tape which I watch at least once a year (crazy 80s commercials and all). I always loved that Batcave, and I'm having a lot of fun stepping into it, and unraveling its secrets.

Atomic Pile is almost complete, and now I need to finish all the various bat-computers, and the cave walls.

anybody got any reference they'd be willing to pass along?

thanks!

Without any solid blueprints, I used Sketchup's Photomatch tool to create the model of the Atomic Pile, and work out the basics of the walls and some console dimensions.



hope you enjoy!

 

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darth_myeek

Sr Member

• Oct 6, 2015

• #2

Just for fun,


This is a rock from the 60's Batcave exterior.

-Mike

 

SofaKing01

Master Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Oct 6, 2015

• #3

This is great! Love it!

 

astroboy

Master Member

• Oct 6, 2015

• #4

I love this sooo much.

I was just talking to a friend of mine and it is an evening ritual for him to watch an episode of this with his 5 year old daughter every night before bed. They're burning through the entire series.

That's awesome. You forget that this series is such a part of batman.

 

SteveStarkiller

Sr Member

• Oct 6, 2015

• #5

Thanks folks!

 

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Jedi Dade

Master Member

• Oct 6, 2015

• #6

Too cool!

Jedi Dade

 

SteveStarkiller

Sr Member

• Oct 7, 2015

• #7

here are some more renders.

 

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Unes

Active Member

• Oct 7, 2015

• #8

wow, amazing job steve.
I am impressed :thumbsup

 

Randy13

Sr Member

• Oct 8, 2015

• #9

Holy Man Cave! This is incredible. At first I thought these were studio set photos.

 

Scote

Active Member

• Oct 9, 2015

• #10

Yah Pretty good lookdev work on that. Nice the renders

 

kruleworld

Well-Known Member

• Oct 9, 2015

• #11

Looks fabulous. nice detail. will look good with a 66 batmobile there.

atomic piles sounds nasty

 

joberg

Legendary Member

• Oct 10, 2015

• #12

Another home run Steve. That cave is the bomb!

 

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adinelt

Active Member

• Oct 11, 2015

• #13

Hi Steve,

Really loving your Batcave model. Brings back a lot of memories from when I was a kid.

I built this Electrodata console quite a while ago for my Jupiter 2 CG model, and if you would like, you are more then welcome to it for the Batcave. I can provide it in either OBJ or FBX format.

Let me know.

Thanks...
Al

 

SteveStarkiller

Sr Member

• Oct 14, 2015

• #14

Hey Al,

thanks for the offer! Your model looks great. Half the fun for me though will be building one myself. So much of this project is about really getting into the details, so I'm not allowing myself shortcuts. I really appreciate the info that it's an Electrodata Console, though, that really helps!

thanks for all the compliments everybody!

 

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adinelt

Active Member

• Oct 15, 2015

• #15

Hi Steve,

I totally understand your philosophy. I am pretty much the same way where I would prefer to do things myself. A great resource for the Electrodata Console is through the Lost In Space Yahoo group. Bill Hedges had access to an original console and took lots of measurements and drew up a set of blueprints. Worth checking out.

Al

 

Galactican

Sr Member

• Oct 16, 2015

• #16

This is totally amazing! SketchUp is my "weapon of choice", too. Hoe do you make the renders? SketchUp's rendering engine is by far not so advanced to create such life-like results.

 

3dartisguy78

New Member

• Jun 30, 2017

• #17

HI YOUR WORK IS INCREDABLE. ive been a Batman 1966 fan since i was a child and first saw the show in reruns in the 1970s. I model 3d modeling and rendering and this my efforts, not nearly as goodas yours!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EWQZuDjx7E&t=131s

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3dartisguy78

New Member

• Jun 30, 2017

• #18

im reworking my 3d batcave in 3dsmax

 

SteveStarkiller

Sr Member

• Mar 13, 2020

• #19

Messing around in twinmotion

 

joberg

Legendary Member

• Mar 13, 2020

• #20

Very nice...now, how about the Batmobile?