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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Thantsants on 16 January 2010, 08:27:33 PM
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Happy New Year one and all.
Don't usually post pics of unpainted stuff - apologies to those sick of WIPs - but I was rather chuffed with the results of my first attempt at what was for me a fairly big conversion!
Anyone who's read the Dr Who novel Blood Heat will know what I'm on about -
more details here - http://teasgettingcold.blogspot.com/2010/01/skys-limit.html
Before -
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/ralparthalizardflying.jpg)
After!
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P1160260.jpg)
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P1160262.jpg)
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I have NO idea what it is supposed to represent, but it looks rather cool! Nicely done. The figures work very well together.
THe way you cut down the head of the Pterosaur looks clean and well done. And I like the little reins to steer the beast. Nice detail.
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Haha - I do sometimes wonder where my odd obsessions lead me to...
Cheers for the comments though - bit more info if you or anyone else want to be enlightened!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_and_the_Silurians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Heat
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nice one... whats the source figure?
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Cheers - its the Lizard Warrior on Flying Reptile from Ral Partha -
https://www.connectstores.com/ralpartha/sp_34950.html
Its legs aren't too bad a match for the Silurian (apart from having 4 toes!) and of course they sit nicely in the existing saddle on the Pterosaur. Only slightly fiddly bit was to cut round the tail as I wanted to keep the Lizard warriors torso as intact as possible for future use.
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I have no such qualms lol
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Maybe I've been living in Yorkshire too long! :o
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Nice conversion! 8)
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Looking good and a great idea for a conversion! Must read that book :)
I'm looking forward to seeing him painted up. I'm sure the "wrong legs" will look fine once painted, as they are probably the last thing most people will look at. As it is they don't look wrong at all to me and anyone who complains about the number of toes really does need a check-up lol
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anyone who complains about the number of toes really does need a check-up lol
Who fandom can teach Nappies a thing or two lol
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Finally got him painted up - four toes and all!
Apologies for the bad lighting...
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P1250253.jpg)
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P1250252.jpg)
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P1250265.jpg)
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P1250258.jpg)
If you fancy reading about me whinging about painting white there's more piccies and stuff on my blog
http://teasgettingcold.blogspot.com/2010/01/chocs-away.html
Anyway - haven't quite finished the base - just ordered some brass tropical plants from Hasslefree to get the London reclaimed by jungle look!
Got my eye on a T Rex for the next project...
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/bloodheat.jpg)
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nice... you've inspired me there...
didn't manage to find a decently retro t-rex... have a couple of nano-tyrannasaurs, but they don't have that 70's feel...
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Aware of it, but never read it (want to now though!) - brilliant regardless!
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Aware of it, but never read it (want to now though!) - brilliant regardless!
was the first NA I bought... is a really good read, lots of references to Who history outside of the Silurians (Weather Control on the moon off the top of my head)... technically part of an alt futures trilogy as the timelines should never have happened and someone has been tinkering, but the story is completely self contained...
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I've been hoping either the Silurians or Sea Devils would appear in New Who. I'm hoping Stephen Moffat is a fan :)
I have some Silurians and also dinos I use for VSF type games, so this might be a good idea to form the basis for a game.
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Cheers fellas -
being a bit of a traditionalist I'd be on tenterhooks as to whether new series silurians would be excellent or whether they'd feel the need to jazz them up too much! Its about time there were some decent dinos on Dr Who though - erase the memory of Invasion of Dinosaurs and the Allosaurus/T Rex in the Cave Monsters!
here's some other older pics (apologies if you've seen them already on the blog!) you might like as well if you're thinking of playing an earth reptile scenario...
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P6160434.jpg)
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P6160436.jpg)
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P7110500.jpg)
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P7110493.jpg)
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P6160438.jpg)
Dunno if you've seen the scenario I put together for Invasion Earth on the blog as well - I'm sure it could be adapted for other systems...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18065530/Vengeance-From-Below
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ooh almost forgot - dunno if I've past this on before or whether saw you suggest it in another post but good old Ral Partha might have the solution to a "70s" T Rex - might look the part once the head is repositioned?
The Devourer
https://www.connectstores.com/ralpartha/sp_34866.html
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/ralparthadevourer.jpg)
Not sure quite how big it is but at £10.95 I'd have thought it was fairly large!
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Cheers fellas -
being a bit of a traditionalist I'd be on tenterhooks as to whether new series silurians would be excellent or whether they'd feel the need to jazz them up too much! Its about time there were some decent dinos on Dr Who though - erase the memory of Invasion of Dinosaurs and the Allosaurus/T Rex in the Cave Monsters!
They were quite shocking, if memory serves me well :( The Silurians already had a "makeover" post-Pertwee, which wasn't too bad. Overall, the new Who team seem to do re-designs of existing monsters in a tasteful and sympathetic way, so I'd be quite optimistic if our reptilian friends were to appear :D
ooh almost forgot - dunno if I've past this on before or whether saw you suggest it in another post but good old Ral Partha might have the solution to a "70s" T Rex - might look the part once the head is repositioned?
The Devourer
https://www.connectstores.com/ralpartha/sp_34866.html
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/ralparthadevourer.jpg)
Not sure quite how big it is but at £10.95 I'd have thought it was fairly large!
He looks very 70s to me. I have a HLBSC T Rex, but he looks a bit "modern" ( if that's the right word ::) ) - so this one should should work with a little chop and change. The current pose is a little bizarre and I can't quite work out what he's supposed to be doing :?
(edited for bad spelling)
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The Silurians already had a "makeover" post-Pertwee, which wasn't too bad. Overall, the new Who team seem to do re-designs of existing monsters in a tasteful and sympathetic way
Yeah I'd agree - seen the pics of the 5th Doctor's silurians although incredibly I've still never watched Warriors of the Deep and it was one of the first Target books I ever bought! I need to see the fearsome Myrka in action :o
Also love the fact that the BTD mini of the Myrka actually looks like two blokes in what is essentially a pantomime horse costume! Still have to GS a tail for mine like Evil Giraffe's, and please excuse the crappy drybrushing - painted this a while ago!
(http://i591.photobucket.com/albums/ss360/thantsants/Dr%20Who/P1260252.jpg)
On the subject of Earth Reptiles - Scales of injustice from the Virgin Missing Adventure series was quite a good read too -
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‘And what exactly, Doctor Shaw, do you think C19 does with the dead bodies of plastic dummies, reptile men, primordial throwbacks and all their human victims?’
A little boy goes missing; a policewoman begins drawing cave paintings; and the employees at the mysterious Glasshouse are desperate to keep everyone away -- the Doctor suspects it’s all down to a group of homo reptilia. His assistant, Liz Shaw, has ideas of her own and has teamed up with a journalist to search for people who don’t exist.
While the Brigadier has to cope with UNIT funding, the breakdown of his marriage and Geneva’s threats to replace him, the Doctor must find the reptiles alone.
And behind it all lies a conspiracy to exploit UNIT’s achievements -- a conspiracy reaching deep into the heart of the British Government.
There is a strange looking colony of Sea Devil/Silurian hybrids in the story that could be fun to recreate...
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I've been hoping either the Silurians or Sea Devils would appear in New Who. I'm hoping Stephen Moffat is a fan :)
He is. ;)