Batman: the red hood

[spudafett]

I'm working on not only a bat-man figure based on plastic surgery's "fire-fly" bat-man but also my take on the robin character from the new bat-man animated movie "batman: under the red hood"

basically the story goes that joker kills robin, robin is resurected, robin becomes a bad-ass vigilante who takes over the crime syndicate in gotham, kills whoever gets in his way, and calls himself "the red hood"...
at first bat-man tries to deal with "the red hood" like any other criminal, until he discovers his true identity.... and bla bla bla...

but anyway, here is a promo shot of "the red hood":


this is what I have done so far:



no paint, just part bashing as of right now.
my question to you guys is do the lankier, armored arms work with the vest/jacket or should I go for the full length coat armed look that is in the toon?
also... I need some kind of knife holster with a long blade in it for his hip, as that was a key element to the character in the movie.

btw, I realy enjoyed this movie, so I definately recomend looking it up online and watching it. very very entertaining.

[adrienveidt]

Aug 28, 2010 22:16:12 GMT -5 spudafett said:

my question to you guys is do the lankier, armored arms work with the vest/jacket or should I go for the full length coat armed look that is in the toon?

Them arms are never gonna look accurate to the toon look, but that's not always a prime concern for me. The question in my mind whether you should keep them - because they do look cool - is if you're gonna paint them brown along with the vest to try to make it all look like one garment. Because that's gonna fail. I would go with this being RH a few months after the movie and that he tore the sleeves off after they got him hung up in a fight or something.

It's really based on nothing more than my own deep dislike of the 'balloon' look of them, but I'd find some diff calves for him.

Interesting choice for the helmet. You just gonna paint it, or mod the eyes to be seperate, or mod it entirely smooth with seperate eyes? I think it'd look really bitchin' if you took out the 'upside down triangle' in the middle of the visor to seperate it into individual eyes, then cut the bottom of those eyes such that they tapered to points at the outer upper edge, then just painted it red.

[spudafett]

adrien, if I kept those arms I would paint them black to match his under-suit and NOT the vest. The vest will be brown leather but most likely without the sleeves.
The way I see it is that this is suposed to be a young robin turned bad-ass loner so he should be a bit spindly-er and leaner than a big muscular bat man figure....

As for the legs, I am still trying different combos. I don't like the balloon look either. I think I might try and find another set of legs that have a more streamlined look. I thought about using the city strike snake eyes legs, but the knee pads threw off the look too much I think.

as for the helmet I was just planning on painting it strait up red but I realy like your suggestions for altering the eyes. I have at least 3 of these exact helmets so if I fudge one up I'll just use a different one and paint it strait!

[SGCaper]

For the knife you could use the sheath and knife off of POC jungle strike Duke.

[adrienveidt]

Aug 29, 2010 12:49:43 GMT -5 spudafett said:

I thought about using the city strike snake eyes legs, but the knee pads threw off the look too much I think.

Coolness on the other bits. If yours looks good I might could steal the idea altho I've officially sworn off all non-Carrie Robins in my UA. As to the quote above, you don't have to use the knee just because it's connected to the calf, y'know.

[spudafett]

Aug 29, 2010 14:17:44 GMT -5 SGCaper said:

For the knife you could use the sheath and knife off of POC jungle strike Duke.

I was thinking the same exact thing just last night... and I might wind up doing that.

adrien, I know I don't have to use the knee pads just cuz it's attached to the thigh... I'm going to root around my parts box and see what other leg combos I can come up with that look closer to the toon's look.

[spudafett]

teaser pic until I get the rest uploaded tomorrow.

[Asphalt]

What line is that mobile from?

[NFC]

I think it's the Batmobile from the 90's BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES line but I could be wrong

[spudafett]

I honestly have no clue what line it's from... but it has a pop-out bat-plane if that helps identify it? I got it for 5 bucks at the flea market, it was all grey, but I painted it black.

[spudafett]

Finished "red hood"









vs his old master:

[Viper]

Red Hood looks pretty damn cool. Wasn't sold on the SE head at first, but it doesn't look bad. The Batmobile is from the BTAS line.

[adrienveidt]

Nope, don't put him on the finished pile just yet. I'd shave the inside lower edge of the eyes back some, as he looks kinda cross-eyed as is. Then I'd paint the side walls of the eyes black and maybe even bring it over onto the top surface a bit to make the whites smaller, and thus more menacing. Also some black wash on the vest and the knife holster would make them both look nice and used and darker like the source fig. The hood also looks like it needs another coat or two of red, and some DullCote to take the gloss off. You could also try to put 3 putty squares on the boots now that you're using the CS SE legs, which are a much nicer choice.

I was really surprised by how much I liked the movie, after thoroughly detesting the idea of Jason's return and how that return was handled in the few comics I'd read. I might just have to swipe this from you, tho. He's not exactly like the toon design, but the salient details are all there and it certainly feels like him. I'd have to make him not be Jason Todd, tho, I think.

[spudafett]

Aug 31, 2010 21:05:47 GMT -5 adrienveidt said:

Nope, don't put him on the finished pile just yet. I'd shave the inside lower edge of the eyes back some, as he looks kinda cross-eyed as is. Then I'd paint the side walls of the eyes black and maybe even bring it over onto the top surface a bit to make the whites smaller, and thus more menacing. Also some black wash on the vest and the knife holster would make them both look nice and used and darker like the source fig. The hood also looks like it needs another coat or two of red, and some DullCote to take the gloss off. You could also try to put 3 putty squares on the boots now that you're using the CS SE legs, which are a much nicer choice.

I was really surprised by how much I liked the movie, after thoroughly detesting the idea of Jason's return and how that return was handled in the few comics I'd read. I might just have to swipe this from you, tho. He's not exactly like the toon design, but the salient details are all there and it certainly feels like him. I'd have to make him not be Jason Todd, tho, I think.

thanks! I agree, the head is too glossy and could use another coat. I probably rushed him a little bit... After taking the pics and looking at them again I agree that the knife holster needs some paint weathering as well. It's amazing how different a figure can look in your hand and then in photos...

my basic back story for my version of the red hood is just that it's robin turned dark... he takes over the crime syndicate and starts running it his way, but still in a way that lessens the burden of police inforcement and hurts fewer people. He makes sure that drugs aren't being sold to kids, etc... So he is doing the whole vigilante thing in his own way, instead of trying to beat crime he is controling it.... basically the same story arc as the movie/comic but without the whole dying and coming back to life bit. Theres realy no reason for all that crap except to show the "emotional trama" bruce underwent. However I think bruce would feel the same sense of defeat and failure if his protoge robin went off half-cocked and started doing his own thing that was contrary to bruce's moral code.