Modular Arkham Asylum

[thewatchman]

Hello again town forum,

After getting the 10937 Arkham Asylum kit a few months ago, i felt compelled to modularise this build in order to give it a more pronounced feeling of size, and dread. So after a month or so of work on it, building and pulling it down, iv come to the final design idea, and while not complete, i thought id share the progress with you all as its constructed. (if anyone cares :p)

So lets get too it shall we, first a front shot of the building, giving a rough idea of the overall final design:

As you can see iv tried to incorporate as many of the original kits design elements as possible, and expand on whats there.

So lets take a walk through the doors and explore the first floor;

As you can see here iv kept the colour scheme and the doors of the original the same, and simply made the steps bigger, and with a small path leading to the front from the street.

Once inside were greeted by the security desk and elevator in the bottom left corner;

We also have the confiscated weapons wall;

And the cells of the original kept and added to because i love the design;

Moving onto the second floor, i kept the beautiful windows from the original kit, and to increase structural strength built the balcony of the 3rd floor into it;

In this floor we have the cells of the more dangerous criminals; (jokers cell as of yet unfinished)

Mr freezes custom climate controlled cell ices over;

The third floor will (when finished) house harleys change room, dr stranges office and the medi bay;

Harleys change room has a spinning statue to get inside;

Dr stranges office backs onto the balcony seen in the second floor roof;

And the medi bay for the "poor" injured batman victims delivered here :p;

The final little detail is a spire i designed for the roof (will be decorated to a later date to look better);]

Which im sure you all think looks rather poorly built and uninspired... until the silver wheel is pushed in the dark;

And batman is summoned...

I hope you all like the project and ill be happy to let you all know how it turns out and i will post update images when i do.

Thanks for looking and would love some constructive criticism.

[kermit]

Do you have side walls to the building? I like what you did with the interior and all the details. what size baseplate did you use?

[thewatchman]

Not yet, iv yet to actually buy / build the side walls.

The baseplate is 32x32 :)

[lightningtiger]

Nice work 'thewatchman', but shouldn't this be posted in the Licensed forum being it's for DC Super Heroes ?

Anyway, Bat-Brick On 'thewatchman' !

[thewatchman]

I thought that at first but at it's core, it's a modular building, so I didn't know. Ill let the mods decide :D.

[The Jersey Brick Guy]

I like it! Please post more photos when you do more.

[eurotrash]

IMHO I think it belongs here - I mean I can see this standing next to a modular Haunted House, or alongside the Town Hall.

I like it and it looks good. The facade was good on the original and your additions have made it more so. I can't wait to see the final version. Keep us posted!

[thewatchman]

Thanks 'eurotrash', it actually is next to my modular haunted house, should I post that up too? I figured everyone else would have done that already. :p

[Only Sinner]

I love all the little details you've put into this, especially the bat-signal.

Show us your modular haunted house, too. I'll bet it would look good next to this.

[datune]

Very nice! How did you manage to pull of that batsignal?

[thewatchman]

It's a "bat" brick, with a light brick mounted in front of it. Ill post pictures of it disassembled later if you want.

[King Aragorn]

Fantastic MOC and beautiful internal details!

[thewatchman]

Okay so this is necro-posting if ever it was done but I finally put the majority of pieces together wanted to present to you all my finished arkham asylum, appreciating all constructive crit and the like.

overview

back view (with elevator slot)

first floor and elevator

second floor also contains the front of the front of the third floor too.

scarecrows cell and the jokers padded cell

ivys containment cell

mr freezes climate controlled room

killer crocs aquarium

and that is the second floor.

The third floor is made in a awkward fashion that turned out pretty well, but i know many purists will dislike its adherence to modular standard.

seeing how it fits in

and lastly the finished roof and improved bat signal

[3BrickFriends]

Its turned out great as a modular building. Nice use of space.