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Pick a brick has always been consistent for me. Well within the 15-18 days they state. If I need something quick, I'll source it out on BL. If I can wait, PAB. Before I discovered BL, I would place an order on PAB, wait for it to come in, realize I needed something else, place another order and wait. With BL I can usually get my orders all in before I would get one PAB order.

This is an excellent build! Absolutely awe inspiring. I really enjoy the display case, I may have to implement something similar in my build. Thanks for sharing!

It sits on a 4 foot by 4 foot table and is 3 48 stud baseplate by 3 48 stud baseplates. So 9 total 48 x 48 plates total. And thank you!

I'll have to dig up my digital camera, like I've said a few times, everything has been taken with my iPhone so far. Quality images, they are not. Haha. I'm still waiting on the BL orders for the medical equipment. I got some stuff in, but had to source it out to 4 or 5 buyers. Hopefully it'll all be in this week and start to take shape.

Thanks! I'll be sure to post more as it goes on. I'm certainly nowhere near completion, so there will be plenty more. Wayne Manor would be a fun build, but at the scale of the cave, would be extremely expensive. I've thought about it, but we'll see how it goes. The cave is already a financial investment in and of itself. I haven't quite worked out an entrance for the batmobile yet. I'm still toying around with a few concepts but haven't decided on anything. Either way I go, it's going to take a lot of restructuring to that area of the build to accomodate it. Here's the entrance for the Batwing (It needs to be dusted): And the watercraft. I'm going to be incorperating a waterfall on this part of the build, eventually... Thank you! I'm certainly a fan of BTAS and it has played in the influence of the cave. I actually incorperated the workshop with Batman Begins in mind, when Bruce is grinding batarangs out on a bench grinder. It took off from there. I'm trying to draw as many details from as many sources as I can. The 60's, the Tim Burton films, the Schumacer films, Nolans films, cartoons, comics and video games. I'm constantly looking at photos to draw inspiration and I've done quite a bit of searching through these forums as well, especially the Star Wars forum.

As requested, here's some closer up views of some of the areas. I didn't do much tonight, just put the rest of the cave walls up and snapped the photos. I'm much too tired to do anything, it's been a long day on little sleep... Workshop: Stairway to Heaven? Trophies: Maincomputer: I still have plenty more details to add in all areas. I've got other things like Freeze's gun, Riddler and Harley Quinns costumes, Judge Dredds gavel etc... I'm also trying to come up with a suit rack for the work shop to hang the electro suit from while it's being "developed". I'm also going to be looking into building server racks for the area for the computer similar to those found in the cave for "Arkham Asylum". If you guys want to see something specific, just ask, I'll take the photo. Thanks for the comments so far!

WAYYYYYY too much. Each layer has give or take, 60 pieces. 6 layers total as of right now. 360ish total pieces for the perimeter. They're $1.87 USD from TLG through their Bricks and Pieces program and I order 50 at a time. That puts me in the neighborhood of $680 USD just for the outside. I ordered my 1st 50 in 2009. My last 50 just came in today. If you exclude all the licensed sets, I'm probably into this for $1,500 so far. A majority of it was building up an inventory on commonly used pieces.

Thank you! I haven't been able to get to the build for the last couple of days but I did get a few BL and PAB orders in, so I'll be spending some time with it tonight. I'll have the chance to take more photos at that point. Here's a few closer ones I've got uploaded for now. Here's the hall of armor, a ninja, samurai, two knights, a conquistador and of course Red Hood. Here's the Batwings landing pad, as it sits right now. Like I stated, I've been working on fleshing out the left side of the cave more so than the right. Divide and conquer. I'll work on getting more photos tonight. I just scanned through my photobucket and realized that everything is outdated and a lot of current details are absent. This is the entire footprint I'm working with. It was originally supposed to be only three BURPS high, but I decided I needed a total of 6 to accommodate the air vehicles. It may still go higher depending on my needs... Jor El in the elevator car... I'll try to upload a video later... my first attempt failed...

Absolutely. Is there anything specific you'd like to see? I've got over 100 photos I've taken as the build has progressed. All of them on my iPhone, so they're not exactly of breathtaking quality. I do have to admit that the only reason why I've posted photos of one half of the cave is well, the other half isn't quite as developed yet. The other half is going to be mostly vehicle storage/work area for the vehicles, and I'm struggling with design ideas for the space that I have. I've got a few thoughts I've been throwing around, but when I'm ready to bite into that half of the cave, I'll probably go back to the drawing board a half dozen times. Here's a photo of the contents of the Kryptonite vault under the Trophy Room... I have the pieces for the opening in dark bley, but just haven't gotten around to changing them yet. I was oringinally going to showcase just the green kyrptonte until I saw this picture: My ultimate goal when I finish is to tile over the base floor, adding various rock formations into it. I also need to find a way to hang bats upside down, so I'll probably be playing around with SNOT techniques at some point.

Thanks! It's a work in progress like I said, everything is subject to change and I'm designing on the fly. Making improvements or redeveloping entire sections as I go. I actually got to mess around with it a little bit over the weekend, I added a platform over the Trophy Room, seen here: This new platform will be the medical wing. I've relocated the Lazarus Chamber to this platform and will be adding an X-ray Machine and a CT Scanner along with other medical related details... One issue I came up with was accessibility. I had no real good way of accessing this new area of the cave. A few minutes of brainstorming and I came up with the idea to add a catwalk from the small platform, to the medical bay... They're just mocked up for now, in an attempt to see if it was possible with legal connections, and it is. When I have more time (Thursday most likely) I'll finish brick building them and put them into LDD to generate a parts list for Bricklink. While I was at it, I decided to add a catwalk to the gym, it seems to make to make sense. Here's a quick visual I threw together in LDD. My plan is to go with light bley for the majority of the brickwork to break up the monotony of the dark bley of the surroundings, using dark bley plates to keep the light bley separated and flat silver grills for the walkway details... (I was messing around with POVRay for a majority of my afternoon and could not figure it out, so these photos will have to suffice until I do...) And lastly, here's my version of an x-ray machine and a ct scanner. I tried to keep them on the smaller scale, but large enough to actually fit a minifig... Thanks for reading guys! And until next time... C+C welcome, as always.

Thought I'd post a few photos of my on-going love affair with Lego and Batman. It's still very much a work in progress as I'm limited to time and funds available. I'm trying to incorporate as many details from the many variations that exist of the cave. It sits on 9 total 48x48 baseplates for a total dimension of 144x144 studs. These pictures are not the most current and they are of iPhone quality. It's also BURP heavy, when I started this project back in '09, it seemed like the part I needed to achieve the look I wanted, and then I discovered that the SNOT technique existed and well... I'm already heavily invested at this point so I'm pretty much committed. This first photo shows the front end of the cave, it incorporates the Trophy Room, Kryptonite Vault, Retired Suits (Batman 1989, Robin, Nightwing and Dark Gray Batman), Lazarus Chamber, Dock for the watercraft, Hydroelectric Generator, and Workshop. Here's a photo from the view from the Trophy Room. Here you can see the Main Computer, Gym, Jason Todd's Memorial, the mouth of the cave and the track for sliding blast doors, and the elevator shaft from the Cave floor to the Gym. The elevator is run off of a PF motor hidden inside the "ventilation" shaft with the battery box and IR receiver on the exterior of the build. In the bottom right of the photo you can see the Batmobile sitting on the turntable. Again, powered by a PF motor with the battery box and IR receiver both located underneath the floor, both accessible by hatches. This last photo, for now, shows the area behind the elevator shaft which I've used as the Armory. The PF motor for the elevator is located in the "ventilation shaft", which I've used cheese slopes to replicate a louver. You can also see some of the Workshop from this angle. I'm working on putting railings onto the staircases leading up to the Lazarus Chamber as well populating this area more as I enjoy the idea that he works on the equipment that he depends on. Right now it doesn't have much for tools, but I do have a vise, bench grinder and drill press along with a tool chest and pegboard. That's it for now. Like I said, it's very much a work in progress and everything is subject to change, nor are the pictures the most up to date. Some things are in place just because I didn't have the parts or pieces but wanted to see how it would fit and waiting on PAB or BL orders. Comments or constructive criticisms are welcome! Also if you have any suggestions/ideas of techniques or details I should try and implement, I'm open to suggestions. Trying to think of everything can be a little daunting at times, but I'm happy with my progress so far. Also, I've got a lot of photos of this as it's progressed so if there's anything you guys want to see, I probably have a photo of it so just ask.

Amazing build! What brand of tape did you use? I find that 3Ms Super 33+ has the best adhesion but when it peels off (and it will) it leaves a nasty residue behind.

I did something similar with mine, except I flipped the windows around so they were recessed a little bit without actually recessing them back a stud. It gives it a nice subtle look. I can post a picture if you'd like to see what I'm talking about. I don't want to detract from your thread and I'm yet to start one of my own.

I actually work on coasters as part of my job, so this is interesting to me. Could you post a closer up photo of the wheel carrier assembly? A coaster typically has three sets of wheels on each car, one set prevents side to side movement, the next limits its upward movement and the last would be the set it normally travels on. Is it possible to do inversions with this kit and not have the train fall off the track?

Thanks guys! Works been hectic so I haven't been able to get on. Hopefully it calms down soon.

I've been lurking around the forums for a few weeks, read some quality threads and saw a lot of quality builds at the same time, so I decided to enlist. A little about me, I'm soon to be 25 out of Western Massachusetts and have been a FOL since as far as I can remember. Also a huge fan of Batman since as far as I can remember so the Batman line from 2006 took me out of the "Dark Ages" and thrust me into the middle of it once again. I've got a MOC of the Batcave in it's stages of infancy and basically building by the seat of my pants. I started it around '09 but it did sit around for quite a while and up until December '12/January '13 didn't really evolve much at all. I'm limited to my inventory (which I've been trying to increase through PAB, eBay, and more recently Bricklink), time and of course money. I've been looking at different building techniques and am trying to implement them in creative ways throughout the project. A little bit about the cave, it sits around 4 feet by 4 feet and sits on a footprint of 144 studs x 144 studs. I've got pictures of the build in progress that I'm willing to share soon as I'm able to post photos, I've got them loaded onto Photobucket ready to go. If you guys have any questions, I'm happy to share any information that I may have.