It started out innocently enough.

For years I had mused about building a full-on TV Batcave in my favorite 1:25 scale. It seemed like a great way to display and showcase my various handbuilt 1:25 Bat-models and it would be a chance to do something nobody had done yet - model the TV Batcave.


But it also always seemed like a huge project that would take forever and so I never got around to starting it. Years later, I thought it would be a great project for me and my son Alexander to do together. We had already built a few mini dioramas together and this seemed like a nice big multi-weekend project to tackle. But we kept putting it off.














Then in 2004 I saw this model on eBay. I thought it looked great and was amazed to find an atomic pile already existing in 1:25 scale.

I won the auction over a holiday weekend when everyone must have been traveling and I got it really affordably. When it arrived, I was amazed at the build-quality: Welded metal struts, cast resin pieces, multi-media texturing. It was VERY nice. I then realized that this was how the big batcave could possibly get built - by supplementing our own modeling with other pieces by other craftspeople. It would still be a huge, time-consuming folly, but it just might happen.

I decided I wanted to get one that wasn't anchored already to a diorama so I contacted the builder - Jim Graham and he told me he could make me another, freestanding Atomic Pile.


And so, a Batcave - That's it. It's an omen. We shall model - a Batcave!