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Make your own, incredibly good copy of the new official LEGO Batman - a tutorial
Part two: make sure you have what it takes. Literally. The LEGO elements it takes to copy the new Batman minifig are...
- a plain black head
- plain grey torso, arms, waist and legs
- black hands
and, which might be a tad harder to get...
- spare Batman mask (2012 version if you want your custom really accurate, the 2006-2008 variant is not ideal). By spare I mean one you can really give up as it is, because we will change it drastically!
- spare Batman cape
Further, the process requires several tools, including...
- black permanent marker (0,1 mm tip ideally). This is optional. You CAN take a single-hair brush with black paint.
- light grey model building colour matching Lego's blend. white and black combined works well too, especially because you can alter the tone to be the most close to Lego's.
- the single-hair brush mentioned above, or any other extremely fine brush, depending on how skilled you are with these. The thinner the brush, the easier it is to paint the light grey detail as you can add it spot by spot even better.
- warm gold pen or paint. This is needed to depict Batman's utility belt.
- flesh paint, for the face hole in the black of the head piece
- brown paint to make facial features such as cheekbones. Watering it down can assimilate it to the original tone if your brown is too dark, but be careful!
- a very sharp ade of approximately 5cm lenght. This ay differ between users, but this is my preference for cowl jobs, as this blade will transform our Batman mask from 2012 to 2015.
- sanding paper with VERY fine grains. This is optional, but will help drastically to make your improved cowl look like a molded part instead of carved.
Got what it takes? Stay tuned for part three, the basic torso layer.
Make your own, incredibly good copy of the new official LEGO Batman - a tutorial
Part two: make sure you have what it takes. Literally. The LEGO elements it takes to copy the new Batman minifig are...
- a plain black head
- plain grey torso, arms, waist and legs
- black hands
and, which might be a tad harder to get...
- spare Batman mask (2012 version if you want your custom really accurate, the 2006-2008 variant is not ideal). By spare I mean one you can really give up as it is, because we will change it drastically!
- spare Batman cape
Further, the process requires several tools, including...
- black permanent marker (0,1 mm tip ideally). This is optional. You CAN take a single-hair brush with black paint.
- light grey model building colour matching Lego's blend. white and black combined works well too, especially because you can alter the tone to be the most close to Lego's.
- the single-hair brush mentioned above, or any other extremely fine brush, depending on how skilled you are with these. The thinner the brush, the easier it is to paint the light grey detail as you can add it spot by spot even better.
- warm gold pen or paint. This is needed to depict Batman's utility belt.
- flesh paint, for the face hole in the black of the head piece
- brown paint to make facial features such as cheekbones. Watering it down can assimilate it to the original tone if your brown is too dark, but be careful!
- a very sharp ade of approximately 5cm lenght. This ay differ between users, but this is my preference for cowl jobs, as this blade will transform our Batman mask from 2012 to 2015.
- sanding paper with VERY fine grains. This is optional, but will help drastically to make your improved cowl look like a molded part instead of carved.
Got what it takes? Stay tuned for part three, the basic torso layer.