megaplayboy Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 This is a thread for real-world and drawing-board inspirations for potential Supervillain lairs, mobile bases, etc. Example Number One: The Lockheed CL-1201 http://www.tailsthroughtime.com/2010/06/in-aviation-those-who-dare-to-dream-are.html 1120 foot wingspan, 5000+ ton weight, carries 22 fighter jets(!), nuclear powered with a flight duration up to 6 weeks. BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 That's just insanely cool. So add just a bit of comic book tech so it can move in and out of orbit, maybe.... Some serious cloaking / inviso fields so it doesn't get blasted to mesons passing over a souther ocean.... This is so much cooler than that helicopter / carrier thing in the movies. I'm sorry: that helicopter / carrier thing is just goofy. This is ridiculously cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted November 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 The Migaloo M7, a 980 foot submersible super yacht. DShomshak, BoloOfEarth and Hermit 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 One I used very recently - Sub-Biosphere 2: https://inhabitat.com/futuristic-sub-biosphere-2-provides-self-sufficient-home-for-100-people-under-the-sea/ Hermit and DShomshak 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 I once had a supervillain buy a section of the Maginot Line and fix it up, modernizing weapons. It made for a scary assault for the heroes. Christopher and DShomshak 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 Buying up an old missile silo and converting it into a base (or even restoring it to launch missiles) is always an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 As to submersible (or in this case, semi-submersible) yachts, I always liked the look of this one: http://www.superyacht.me/1365-2/ Though here's one that's gone from concept to reality: https://weburbanist.com/2014/03/11/submarine-suite-private-luxury-in-submersible-yacht-hotel/ DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 Ooo! I found this site: Real Life Locations That Would Make Badass Supervillain Lairs Christopher, DShomshak, Dkap and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 20 Sinister Looking Buildings That Could Easily be a Super-Villain's Lair I particularly like this one: Ninja-Bear and DShomshak 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted November 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2018 A rolling land base is a bit trickier, but here's one that could be adapted for that purpose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_Elevated_Bus The basic version carries 300 passengers, and some projected versions were designed to carry up to 1200 passengers. Sadly, the project turned out to be an investment scam, but the basic idea was considered feasible. BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted November 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2018 German Flak Tower from WW2. The above is in Italian, but basically, the outer walls were up to 3.5m thick concrete, there were four twin 128mm AA guns on the roof, capable of firing on ground targets as well, and dozens of smaller AA guns. It also served as a bomb shelter. BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted November 15, 2018 Report Share Posted November 15, 2018 And of course, to go along with your submersible yacht, what about your own private artificial island? Karl Stromberg, knock yourself out..... BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 15, 2018 Report Share Posted November 15, 2018 One of my ideas was that a megavillain who put a ship in orbit. This one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scharnhorst-class_battleship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted November 15, 2018 Report Share Posted November 15, 2018 Interesting choice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesguy Posted November 16, 2018 Report Share Posted November 16, 2018 And clearly all the submersible yachts would use some high tech fuel - not diesel. I was thinking a recommissioned USSR air craft carrier - with modern power source and weapons. Air Craft carriers are floating cities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pinecone Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 During WW2 one of the weird concepts was an artificial ice berg as a unsinkable aircraft carrier. Add in a comic book power source, and the built in refigeration units make for an awesome mobile base. BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 I forget where I read about it, but in Berlin (IIRC) there's a huge, windowless, cylindrical concrete building. It started as a storage tank for keeping natural gas or coal gas under high pressure. In WW2 the Nazis converted it into an office building because its incredibly thick walls of reinforced concrete made it bomb-proof. Later it was turned into apartments. Perhaps a new buyer could find other uses. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted November 17, 2018 Report Share Posted November 17, 2018 One might find inspiration in Megalomania: Too Much is Never Enough, by Philippe Tretiak. A book-length photo essay on modern excess, from artificial islands in Dubai to the diamond-encrusted Rolls-Royce of a Russian oligarch/mafioski. Lots of inspiration for Master Villains, not just architecture. A sequel called Megalomania: The Madness of Builders is probably more apropos, but I haven't seen it. Dean Shomshak Brian Stanfield 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted November 18, 2018 Report Share Posted November 18, 2018 Also: More than a year ago, I started a thread on "Ready-Made Villain Lairs": Places a villain could move right into an adapt with minimal cost or effort. (Or heroes on a budget, for that matter.) I received many good suggestions, but the No-Prize went to Lord Liaden for his suggestion of a derelict ship. Several of these are just floating around on the ocean, apparently abandoned. Perhaps LL still has the link handy to the article about these ships? Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted November 18, 2018 Report Share Posted November 18, 2018 Never mind, here's the thread link: https://www.herogames.com/forums/topic/93554-ready-made-villain-bases/ LL's post with its own link is just a few posts in. DS BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted November 18, 2018 Report Share Posted November 18, 2018 (edited) On 11/17/2018 at 5:29 AM, pinecone said: During WW2 one of the weird concepts was an artificial ice berg as a unsinkable aircraft carrier. Add in a comic book power source, and the built in refigeration units make for an awesome mobile base. Project Habakkuk:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk The idea was to use it as a floating airfield/unsinkable aircraft carrier. And I think they did have an actuall floating Iceberg in Code Geas. As they are building on the Titanic 2, what if the original ship was actually sunk by a iceberg villain base? Edited November 18, 2018 by Christopher forgot "sunk by" pinecone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted November 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Christopher said: Project Habakkuk:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk The idea was to use it as a floating airfield/unsinkable aircraft carrier. And I think they did have an actuall floating Iceberg in Code Geas. As they are building on the Titanic 2, what if the original ship was actually a iceberg villain base? Seems like a suitable lair for a cold/ice based villain or team of such villains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted November 19, 2018 Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 With cutbacks in mental health spending, there are also various abandoned mental asylums. Many of these look downright spooky and foreboding. Back in high school, some friends and I used to sneak onto the grounds of a local one (Eloise Asylum), which consisted of around 70 buildings - it had its own power house, post office, apartments for staff, rooms for patients, fire hall, warehouse, and of course plenty of medical and psychiatric treatment facilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted November 19, 2018 Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 Hermit's excellent Adventures of Fish Guy has the superheroes working out of a former shopping mall. No reason a supervillain couldn't move his troops / equipment into an abandoned mall - tons of room, including nice wide-open areas for the big showdown with the heroes. pinecone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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