Introducing the good Doctor... (final pics added!)

[oxiana]

As if i didn't have enough things to distract me from my current Three Musketeers project, things here at Oxiana Towers have taken on a distinctly Doctor Who-flavoured tint of late. None of your swivel-eyed David Tennant stuff either (though I'm a fan of that too), but real old-school Who.

Here's the first offering - I'll post some more in the coming days. Like my Eureka musketeers, the Second Doctor here is in 40mm. He's a Fine Art Castings mini from the mid 1980s.

[Supercollider]

Very nice, excellent details

[Malamute]

Very nice - You have got to love that Patrick Troughton pudding bowl haircut.

[Orctrader]

Love it.  Oh, the memories 

[Uncle Mike]

Wonderful!!! Makes me want for a bag of prawn flavored crisps and one of those sherbert things...the one that looks like some sort of IED...anyways, perfect paintjob and killer model to boot.

[oxiana]

Thanks everyone - you can have the Peter Davison Doctor tomorrow as a treat. I'm out of sherbet dabs though, sorry!

[Chairface]

Lovely work! He looks like he's about to spring off the page. 

[bandit86]

Wow thats a spot on job looks just like him.  Any 40mm billie pipers?

[oxiana]

Here are some more pictures for you.

As promised, today's Doctor is number Five. Peter Davison is never particularly celebrated as one of the great Doctors, but I have a soft spot for him as I can remember my entire family around the television for the much-trailed regeneration, as we all wondered who Tom Baker was going to turn into. Happy days.



I discovered too late the trick to painting pinstripes with this model: do them first! Then you won't basically finish the mini, then realise you still have to do the stripes and then worry that every wobbly line is going to ruin the figure!

I also finished at the same time one of the Fifth Doctor's companions, the ever so slightly shifty Turlough:



And finally, I guess this mini should need no introduction, except to say that rather than being an old 1980s Fine Art Castings model it is in fact a perfectly scaled keyring from British high street stalwart Marks & Spencer...

[oxiana]

Oops, forgot this:

Any 40mm billie pipers?

Monolith/Graven Images do two 'Travelling Do-gooders" in 40mm, which are actually the Ninth Doctor and Rose (www.monolithdesigns.co.uk/dystopia.htm). They're on my list to buy - they also do a bunch of spooky alien gasmask kids asking 'Are you my mummy?' from the Empty Child/Doctor Dances story.

Anyway, if I get back to the paint pots, you can have another mini tomorrow...

[Gluteus Maximus]

I've always been a Peter Davidson fan. It's probably got a bit to do with the cricket connection, but to me he's second only to Tom Baker in the "classic" Doctors league table. You've done him proud with your painting 

I always thought it was a shame that Mr Ecclestone left so early, but that Tennant chappie was inspired casting and he's currently number one, IMO   

[Malamute]

I've always been a Peter Davidson fan. It's probably got a bit to do with the cricket connection, but to me he's second only to Tom Baker in the "classic" Doctors league table. You've done him proud with your painting 

I always thought it was a shame that Mr Ecclestone left so early, but that Tennant chappie was inspired casting and he's currently number one, IMO   

My favourite is always going to be Jon Pertwee, but you are right Tennant has done a fine job, its a shame Ecclestone turned it in after just one series as he was good too.

Great painting on the Davidson figure. You have the colour scheme spot on. Do you have a Pertwee figure too.

[dodge]

I've always been a Peter Davidson fan. It's probably got a bit to do with the cricket connection, but to me he's second only to Tom Baker in the "classic" Doctors league table. You've done him proud with your painting 

I always thought it was a shame that Mr Ecclestone left so early, but that Tennant chappie was inspired casting and he's currently number one, IMO   

My favourite is always going to be Jon Pertwee, but you are right Tennant has done a fine job, its a shame Ecclestone turned it in after just one series as he was good too.

Great painting on the Davidson figure. You have the colour scheme spot on. Do you have a Pertwee figure too.

You can tell we are the same age Mal, for me the beginning was Jon Pertwee and he is my favorite Doctor, Tom Baker was my second he was in it for so long and some of my favorite episodes are his. I liked Peter Davidson but then they started messing about with the schedules and Cornation Street kept winning out cos the bill payer liked it.

Now its been rejuvenated I just love David Tennant he is great.

Oxiana - your painting is well good. Stripes scare the hell out of me but you have done really well.

Dodge

[oxiana]

Thanks all. We're our own worst critics, so I look at those pinstripes and can see all the bits I got wrong, so it's very heartening to hear get such kind comments.

John Pertwee was cool, no mistaking. Always reversing the polarity of the neutron flow... I missed out on him the first time around, but I was such a fan as a kid I went on our local Cubs' outing to the theatre in London to see him play Worzel Gummidge on the stage, just so I could say I'd seen the Doctor. Now, there's an admission!

I'll see what I can do about a Pertwee mini , but in the meantime, here's his greatest nemesis. Roger Delgado was the definitive Master in my book:



That's your lot for now. In true Doctor Who cliff-hanger ending fashion, I'll leave you the promise of what's up next week: a certain Brigadier and the start of a some proper monsters...

[Gluteus Maximus]

Thanks all. We're our own worst critics, so I look at those pinstripes and can see all the bits I got wrong, so it's very heartening to hear get such kind comments.

John Pertwee was cool, no mistaking. Always reversing the polarity of the neutron flow... I missed out on him the first time around, but I was such a fan as a kid I went on our local Cubs' outing to the theatre in London to see him play Worzel Gummidge on the stage, just so I could say I'd seen the Doctor. Now, there's an admission!

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