Custom Bat-buckle for music project
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Costume making, prop building and other '66 Bat-related arts and crafts. Great place for info and helpful tips. Proudly display your latest creation. Please keep it '66 Batman related otherwise it will be moved to OFF-TOPIC.
(NO SOLICITATION). If you're looking to BUY or SELL something, go to the MERCHANDISE SECTION. Even if you're trying to assemble a costume by buying or acquiring different crafted items rather than constructing or customizing them yourself, then it belongs in the MERCHANDISE SECTION. Don't even ask somebody if they're planning on selling something within this section.
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Custom Bat-buckle for music project
If you've seen me hyping it on the Bat Board music thread or in Bat-Merchandise, I went all out on the packaging for this new jazz album of Riddle/Hefti covers, The Bat Swings!
It's a tribute album of sorts, an homage, and not a licensed affair (except for the music publishing), so I wanted to include as much '66 Bat-imagery as possible while keeping at least one foot in the realm of parody. It's an interesting dynamic (pun intended), when so much of the show itself is satire.
There's a cosplay element to the CD sleeve, and I made a custom utility belt buckle for a teaser image:
The buckle is made out of sheets of styrene and temporarily affixed to the belt with 3M adhesive foam tape. I have lots of styrene from the hobby store, but it gets kind of expensive. This time, I found huge sheets of styrene in the scrap bin at a local hobby/electronics store in Orlando called SkyCraft. I spent less on the styrene than I did on the bronze spray paint.
One of the sheets already had a texture that was a great match for my project. In the end, I probably could have made a proper metal buckle, but it created a deep bevel that I hope shows up a little more clearly in my photos.
The earbuds (Bat-Buds? Bat-Phones? for the Bat-Pod?) are cheap bluetooth headphones I got on Amazon. They already had red pinstripes, so I cut fins/wings out of styrene, painted them black, and applied red vinyl for the edge striping.
It's a tribute album of sorts, an homage, and not a licensed affair (except for the music publishing), so I wanted to include as much '66 Bat-imagery as possible while keeping at least one foot in the realm of parody. It's an interesting dynamic (pun intended), when so much of the show itself is satire.
There's a cosplay element to the CD sleeve, and I made a custom utility belt buckle for a teaser image:
The buckle is made out of sheets of styrene and temporarily affixed to the belt with 3M adhesive foam tape. I have lots of styrene from the hobby store, but it gets kind of expensive. This time, I found huge sheets of styrene in the scrap bin at a local hobby/electronics store in Orlando called SkyCraft. I spent less on the styrene than I did on the bronze spray paint.
One of the sheets already had a texture that was a great match for my project. In the end, I probably could have made a proper metal buckle, but it created a deep bevel that I hope shows up a little more clearly in my photos.
The earbuds (Bat-Buds? Bat-Phones? for the Bat-Pod?) are cheap bluetooth headphones I got on Amazon. They already had red pinstripes, so I cut fins/wings out of styrene, painted them black, and applied red vinyl for the edge striping.
Re: Custom Bat-buckle for music project
As a musician and a '66 Bat fanatic, I can't tell you how much I love these. Massive kudos on a GREAT job!!!!!!!
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Thanks for posting, as soon as I saw that teaser image I wondered how you made the bat belt! Awsome album, this just shows how much you are putting into this amazing labor of love, great work!
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That is a really great looking belt buckle and earbuds!
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Those are AWESOME! I want to make those BatBuds!
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Love your prop-work and the final artwork! Heck the whole project from the arrangements and performances through to the artwork is a new standard for the effort I wish all projects rooted in fandom could achieve.
I've said it more than once, but i'll say it again - Well done to you and all involved!
I've said it more than once, but i'll say it again - Well done to you and all involved!