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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Onebigriver on July 21, 2010, 06:26:44 PM
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My first Dr Who Miniatures Game project.
The Dalek mine:
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0835.jpg)
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0836.jpg)
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0838.jpg)
Rusting machinery around the mine:
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0839.jpg)
The Dalek saucer:
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0840.jpg)
Some of the ruins of London:
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0841.jpg)
The Dalek transmitter:
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0842.jpg)
Robomen:
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0843.jpg)
The pepperpots with the Black Dalek's pet, the Slyther:
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0844.jpg)
The Doc with K9 and Capt Jack:
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0845.jpg)
The resistance:
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0846.jpg)
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0847.jpg)
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0849.jpg)
Sorry that some of the pics are a bit ropy. Will try to take some better ones.
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Great job! I like very much the U.F.O. ;)
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Nicely done, I have this in mind for a future project as well & might have to borrow an idea or two :D
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Excellent! I loved that film as a nipper and it's nice to see it re-imagined for the 21stC. I'm looking forward to seeing all these elements combined into a large pictorial game report :D
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Slightly better pics:
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0869-1.jpg)
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0870-1.jpg)
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0871.jpg)
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0872.jpg)
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0876.jpg)
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0878.jpg)
(http://i633.photobucket.com/albums/uu58/onebigriver_bucket/100_0879.jpg)
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Nice looking game and figures. What rule system do you use and where were you able to get all of those Doctor Who figures? Thanks
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Nice looking game and figures. What rule system do you use and where were you able to get all of those Doctor Who figures? Thanks
Cheers. Doctor is from Heresy, Daleks and K9 are the Dr Who Micro Universe figures, Robomen are the plastic troopers from EM4, Resistance figures are Copplestone, EM4 and Kallistra scavvies, TARDIS is the Glasgow police box from Fenris Games, monster is an EM4 proto-shoggoth. Capt Jack is a conversion.
I'm using the Dr Who Miniatures Game. It's free from here:
http://www.drwhominiatures.co.uk/
More rules and suitable figures from here:
http://www.crooked-dice.co.uk/
There's also an excellent Yahoo group
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Clever use for the EM4 troopers . They make rather good modern Robomen.
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Brilliant stuff! Love the Robomen - bit cheaper than the BTD option!
What did you use for the saucer?
... and what happened to Peter Cushing?! ;)
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Brilliant stuff! Love the Robomen - bit cheaper than the BTD option!
What did you use for the saucer?
... and what happened to Peter Cushing?! ;)
lol The saucer is the ex-Testors kit, now produced by Lindberg.
Cheaper than BTD is right. The scenarios are based on the TV story rather than the film, but the Robomen in the TV series look crap, plus I can use the EM4 troopers as generic security troops in other Who/near future games. The Cthulhu beastie represents the Slyther, a nasty resident of Skaro, but the Slyther in the TV story looks like a burst bin bag.
I prefer to buy figures I can use in several different games, especially if they only appeared in one story. As long as Daleks look like Daleks, Cybermen look like Cybermen and the Doctor is recognisable as one of the doctors, then I'll buy different figures to represent other races etc.
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Quite right! That BTD slyther is terrible!
Think I remember trawling ebay and spotting that kit - didn't know it was still in production - cheers for the tip!
Got any other good tips - like models for Invasion style Cyberships?!
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Quite right! That BTD slyther is terrible!
Think I remember trawling ebay and spotting that kit - didn't know it was still in production - cheers for the tip!
Got any other good tips - like models for Invasion style Cyberships?!
To be fair the story's Slyther was pretty bad anyway, and the Beeb actually changed it mid-production.
Actually bought the saucer for my 1950s alien invasion project, not as impressive as AEG's Dalek saucer made from wall clocks, but satisfyingly big.
Sorry can't help about Cyberships. AEG and Auton might have some suggestions.
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Very nice stuff! I jusy posted this on the CD Forum too.
Are you using the DWMG Dalek Invasion Earth supplement BTW?
http://www.drwhominiatures.co.uk/carnival2.html
I've got the Slyther mini - your choice is a vast improvement!
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I like the flying saucer model. Very cool indeed.
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Very nice stuff! I jusy posted this on the CD Forum too.
Are you using the DWMG Dalek Invasion Earth supplement BTW?
http://www.drwhominiatures.co.uk/carnival2.html
I've got the Slyther mini - your choice is a vast improvement!
Yep, terrain and figures were all chosen to fit the scenarios in that supplement.
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great stuff, Jansen... the robomen really work and the Slyther - but in it's defence I really like the original BBC one you can get from BTD... :D I have two... and the classic robomen for me as well...
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roweller/drwho/IMG_1005.JPG)
easy to convert new recruits as well...
Sorry can't help about Cyberships. AEG and Auton might have some suggestions.
I don't think you see the Cyberships very clearly in The Invasion - one is in orbit of the Moon, but there is no sense of scale, so it could be massive or a remote drone... first Cybership seen is Revenge of the Cybermen I think (although Moonbase may have had one - never seen it), which is just so much toilet roll... seem to remember the Cybership in Silver Nemesis was rather spiffy, but waiting on the DVD for that one...
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You always do a great job with those figures Chris but as you know I like to have multiple uses for most of the figures. The robomen will end up drafted as part of the security forces taking on the Dalek in the scenario based on the Dalek story
It was actually Rev who suggested the proto-shoggoth after putting up a stout defence for the original Slyther. Probably best not to mention what I plan to use as not-Quarks, not-Mechanoids etc. I've already committed the cardinal sin of using Gary Mitchell's ridged rim aliens as Ogrons. Wait until you see what I'm using as Terror Autons! :D
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ooooo I'd like some Mechanoids myself....
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ooooo I'd like some Mechanoids myself....
Nope. Not telling. At least they'll look like they could have built a city and defeated the Daleks rather than just rolled about a bit. ;)
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I don't think you see the Cyberships very clearly in The Invasion - one is in orbit of the Moon, but there is no sense of scale, so it could be massive or a remote drone... first Cybership seen is Revenge of the Cybermen I think (although Moonbase may have had one - never seen it), which is just so much toilet roll... seem to remember the Cybership in Silver Nemesis was rather spiffy, but waiting on the DVD for that one...
The Moonbase one is a saucer which IIRC looks very much like the saucer shown here! The Invasion one returns in a cameo in the spaceships-over-Stonehenge scenes during the recent Eleventh Dr story The Pandorica Opens - and a lovely shot it is, too (if you like lens flare).
Either are great choices, and better than the rather phallic Revenge ship. But if I had a choice I'd go for the Invasion one, now that the Daleks have cornered the market for saucers.
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are there any pics of the Invasion Cybership? very intrigued... have the DVD, but the animation doesn't really show much
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Nope. Not telling. At least they'll look like they could have built a city and defeated the Daleks rather than just rolled about a bit. ;)
I'll be disappointed if you're using marbles...
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I'll be disappointed if you're using marbles...
lol Now there's an idea. No, problem with a lot of the Who robots is that the they look totally unsuitable for what they're designed to do. Quarks and Mechanoids are the prime examples. I just plan to use something that fulfil their roles more convincingly. I have decided that when I get round to doing the Dominators scenario, I will use the two figures from BTD.
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Sounds intriguing - always loved the Quarks!
Back on the cyberships - just had a look at The Invasion DVD - they look like thin cylindrical ships with 2 larger midsections that look suspicioulsy like cotton reels!
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Sounds intriguing - always loved the Quarks!
Back on the cyberships - just had a look at The Invasion DVD - they look like thin cylindrical ships with 2 larger midsections that look suspicioulsy like cotton reels!
Surely you are not suggesting the BBC props dept used cheap household items in Dr Who :o
lol lol
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Surely you are not suggesting the BBC props dept used cheap household items in Dr Who :o
lol lol
I remember seeing a documentary with Matt Irvine in the 1980s. To his shame, he built a ship for Blake's 7 out of a hairdryer.
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I remember seeing a documentary with Matt Irvine in the 1980s. To his shame, he built a ship for Blake's 7 out of a hairdryer.
I remember him on SWAPSHOP showing off his models ,the infamous hair dryer was part of the show .If memory serves the 2 halves of the dryer were side by side. I remember watching BLAKES 7 and seeing them use a wall mounted com unit which was a pocket calculator turned upside down and stuck on the wall.!!
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I remember him on SWAPSHOP showing off his models ,the infamous hair dryer was part of the show .If memory serves the 2 halves of the dryer were side by side. I remember watching BLAKES 7 and seeing them use a wall mounted com unit which was a pocket calculator turned upside down and stuck on the wall.!!
He was quite embarassed about the ship because it was so recognisable.
That said, the interior of the Nostromo apparently relied heavily on washing up dish racks.
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He was quite embarassed about the ship because it was so recognisable.
That said, the interior of the Nostromo apparently relied heavily on washing up dish racks.
the switchs Ripley presses in the shuttle at the end are sprue...
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I envy the guys who got to work on the ships for Alien, Star Wars etc. All that kitbashing....
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I envy the guys who got to work on the ships for Alien, Star Wars etc. All that kitbashing....
Geronimo worked on the Red Dwarf model
EDIT: or I may have dreamed that
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Geronimo worked on the Red Dwarf model
EDIT: or I may have dreamed that
You're right, remember him saying it on Frothers, he did it on placement from college.
Lucky git.
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very nice themed terrain,also i do believe i have seen that bloke with the umbrelly nosing about my figs hmmm... all well done, enjoyable just to look at. :) 8)
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Awesome! Please post pics of the game!
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You're right, remember him saying it on Frothers, he did it on placement from college.
Lucky git.
Just to add to the envy-o-meter. Ian also worked on the Tim Burton Batmobile as well! :D
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Nice to be able to do what you love both as a hobby and for cash 8)