[MOC] Batwing emerges

[spirogero]

Batwing takes off from its underground base, over the lake, on a retractable launch pad:

2 by Spiros Geropoulos, on Flickr

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32x32 studs.23 cm high, 900 parts approx.

[Gusseteer]

Nice work. Love the texturing and use of colour.

[TheBrickBuilder14]

Nice work, I really like how you've managed to pack all the key shapes and features of the Batwing in such small scale. The scene itself is also nice. One thing I would change however is the way that the Batwing emerges, I feel that posing it at a slightly higher and less straight angle would achieve the "emerging" feel much more effectively.  

Edited July 17, 2017 by TheBrickBuilder14

[spirogero]

9 hours ago, TheBrickBuilder14 said:

Nice work, I really like how you've managed to pack all the key shapes and features of the Batwing in such small scale. The scene itself is also nice. One thing I would change however is the way that the Batwing emerges, I feel that posing it at a slightly higher and less straight angle would achieve the "emerging" feel much more effectively.  

Thanks!

I tried that, with transparent parts underneath. I didn't like the result though; too much stuff under the BatWing, that looked irrelevant and spoiled the hovering effect. I preferred to "lower" the BatWing, rather than to have that transparent mass under it.

Maybe I should try magnets. Hmmm...

Edited July 18, 2017 by spirogero