Iris Wildthyme, or One Girl and Her Panda

[oxiana]

Every now and then I look at my slowly growing Doctor Who mini collection and wonder what I should add next. Judoon perhaps? Maybe some Ood? They'd be good. Hell, I don't even have any UNIT troops! And just when I think that's what I'll do, I get distracted by something completely frivolous (and barely even canon).

Here then is Iris Widthyme, late of the spin-off novels and audio adventures. Another idiosyncratic Time Lord, with a Tardis that appears as a red Routemaster doubledecker bus (and which by a curious bit of transdimensional maths, is actually smaller on the inside). Her 'companion' is a sentient stuffed toy panda. Iris is almost certainly aware that she is a fictional character...



And my conversion:



Mini started off life as Vicki from the BTD Who range. Jacket, boots and belt were all added with greenstuff, along with the hat. Panda was similarly scratchbuilt.

Iris could of course just be an It Girl about town in any sort of modern gaming scenarios. But if all this is a bit rare for Who traditionalists, here's a more recent TV character, as modelled by those wonderful people at Crooked Dice!



And back on our TV screens very soon indeed!  

PS. I will do some UNIT troop one day, I promise!

[Commander Vyper]

Should have gone with the scarf and gloved hands though. Very nice all the same and the panda's cool.

Thanks for sharing

The Commander

[anevilgiraffe]

love Iris... not that keen on the character myself, but she looks the part...

[Malamute]

Never heard of her,  .....but love the figure.

Great painting and wonderful Greenstuff work. I would not have known it was a conversion unless you pointed it out.

[uti long smile]

Nice!

[carrma]

oooooh--nice job there!    I finally got around to getting the latest BF audios and I had thought about doing a custom Iris, too!  I got as far as looking for 1:50 double-decker buses but didn't get as far as looking for suitable figures.  Vicki is a great starting point.  Yea Panda!

[Chairface]

Oh well done sir! You captured her perfectly!

[Steve F]

The great thing about Iris is that she originally appeared in a non-Who literary novel by Paul Magrs, in which her seeming immortality and changing nature were heavily linked to Viginia Woolf's Orlando.

Then Magrs wrote a Doctor Who novel and made her a Time Lord instead!

I know she's Katy Manning these days, but I still have more of a Margaret Rutherford image in my head.  That's a cacking conversion, though. Cracking, not "cacking".  Curse my typing!

Hmm, how about a scenario in which Iris's bus-shaped TARDIS gets mixed up with Lady Christina's Mighty 200?

[Gluteus Maximus]

Ah Katy Manning! Many fond adolescent memories.....

Your Iris is lovely, but I do agree with The Commander, the scarf and gloves would have made her even better. Still, no matter, she's a great model and Malamute's right, the greenstuff work is top-notch!

One thing bothers me - if the bus-TARDIS is smaller on the inside, how does she fit the swimming pool in 

 

[oxiana]

Ah Katy Manning! Many fond adolescent memories.....

I'm sure with a BTD Dalek mini and one of Hasslefree's naked girls, you could recreate a certain famous photo shoot in 28mm, entirely for your own pleasure!   

[Malamute]

I'm sure with a BTD Dalek mini and one of Hasslefree's naked girls, you could recreate a certain famous photo shoot in 28mm, entirely for your own pleasure!   

Knowing Gluteus, he's probably done it already

[Damas]

I do have to ask, when are you going to show us the Routemaster?  And will you have the retired version or the new 2011 shape?  Which one will the TARDIS' chameleon circuit choose?

[Jet Simian]

It's lovely! And anyone who says different is JOLLY WELL LOOKING FOR A PUNCH UP THE HOOTER!! </Panda>

This is the Manning Iris of course, now where's the Barbarella one, the Shirley Bassey one, etc...?

[Gluteus Maximus]

Knowing Gluteus, he's probably done it already

If I'd thought of it before I would have.... 

[The_Beast]

I'm sure with a BTD Dalek mini and one of Hasslefree's naked girls, you could recreate a certain famous photo shoot in 28mm, entirely for your own pleasure!   

Well, as I've never actually had that issue of Girls Illustrated in hand, I hope he won't keep it to himself! 

I'm not sure how I feel about Iris; part of me wants to say 'but there is only one', but a female TL even dingier than the first Romana, well....

Doug