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Author Topic: A jolly technicolor romp through time and space (2016-01-01: Doctors & GalSec)  (Read 11256 times)

Offline Steve F

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I'm aware. He's still a pedantic bugger!

I like to think that I provide the useful service of making everyone else look so much more freethinking and original.   ;)

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I like to think that I provide the useful service of making everyone else look so much more freethinking and original.   ;)

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Love it all Chris! 8) 8) 8) 8)

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Hi folks,

thanks for the kind replies so far - as promised, now for some more in-detail shots from last round's LPL entry.

A trio of "ship crew" Daleks, i.e. with a bit more blue in their paint scheme.



Next, a Dalek on a hoverbout. The 'bout is loosely based on the TV21 comic and made from various metal discs clad with cardboard (ran out of plasticard in the right thickness, will do a better version later on).



This Dalek is affixed using a small rare earth magnet mounted in the fender bottom, so I can switch between a regular base and the hoverbout (and a larger flying platform which is still very much WIP).





Thanks for looking!
« Last Edit: June 07, 2015, 03:53:28 PM by Westfalia Chris »

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Impeccably Whovian. The eyeball-looking thing on the hoverdisc is precisely what the Doctor Who aesthetic is all about.

This thread is great fun, thanks for sharing :)
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Forgot to upload the following - since I won't be using them in the LPL, one more for today.

A bunch of spherical robot servants gone rogue. Again, the paint scheme is based on the TV21 comic strip - while I quite liked the original silver effect, I wanted to try a metallic green. Didn't quite work out as planned, so may repaint them at a later time, but I am quite happy with the "retro toy" feel.


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Nicely done Chris!
« Last Edit: June 07, 2015, 05:21:04 PM by uti long smile »
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the paint scheme is based on the TV21 comic strip

It does have the look of one of Ron Turner's lighting schemes.  I like it.

Which reminds me, you said earlier that there would be more about your technique of using "metallics combined with translucent paint".  Could you elaborate?

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Which reminds me, you said earlier that there would be more about your technique of using "metallics combined with translucent paint".  Could you elaborate?

There isn't too much to it, really. Basically, it boils down to the following steps:

1. Primer the figure

I currently use Army Painter Uniform Grey spray which gives a very nice, neutral grey finish.

2.  Add the metallic basecoat

For this, I predominantly use Revell Aqua Color Aluminium no. 36199. As I have stated before, I consider this one of, if not THE very best "silver metallics" currently on the market - it covers well both undiluted and thinned; I usually go for two thin coats. For reds, however, it can produce a slightly "pale" or "pinkish" tinge, similar to what you might expect when using a red wash on a white base; in that case, e.g. the Dalek engineers, I used a Vallejo Game Color Bright Brass basecoat which results in a richer, deeper red.

3. Basic tone

For this, I use Vallejo Model Color transparent paints, e.g. Transparent Red (VMC 70.934), Transparent Blue (70.938), Transpaent Green (70.936). For orange, I usually mix up the yellow (70.937) with the red, but there is a ready-mixed one available; I used a mixture for the pants on the Gallifreyans, for example.

All the Dalek blues are just the Transparent Blue, while the reds usually have a drop of VGC Sepia Ink added to improve their richness.

The Gallifreyans display a purple mixed from red and blue (duh!) over the silver basecoat on their armour.

For the Mechonoids, I used the Transparent Green with a hint of blue.

I usually just thin it down just a little bit and try to remove excess paint by hand before it can puddle up - it is essentially a thick wash, so the usual caveats apply.

Note that I do not highlight those areas - usually, the base coat shades the recesses quite nicely, as a wash would do, and I like to pick out the edges of "moving parts" (e.g. where a shoulder pad meets the torso armour) with a darkened version of the basic tone, such as Sepia Ink/Red for reds etc.

4. Details

After the colour coat has dried, I usually touch up those areas that stay "metal", e.g. the Daleks' collars, and paint in different areas, e.g. the Sontarans' and Gallifreyans' guns. For the Daleks, I opted to pick out the "bumps" in various metallics - for the "troops", this was VGC bright brass combined with steel/aluminium collars, for the specialists, I used a mix of reversing the scheme or going for an all-gold-detail option, e.g. the Black/Supreme Dalek.

5. Varnish

To finish it off, a coat of gloss varnish is applied which adds to the shine. Revell Aluminium is rather shiny in itself, but on the Dalek Emperor's head, you can actually see hazy reflections due to the combination of the brass base and varnish.

As said, not too much of it, although I shudder a bit how one can pad the simple "paint translucent paint over a metallic basecoat". lol
« Last Edit: June 07, 2015, 06:22:56 PM by Westfalia Chris »

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I love this! Excellent thread

Offline Onebigriver

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Forgot to upload the following - since I won't be using them in the LPL, one more for today.

A bunch of spherical robot servants gone rogue. Again, the paint scheme is based on the TV21 comic strip - while I quite liked the original silver effect, I wanted to try a metallic green. Didn't quite work out as planned, so may repaint them at a later time, but I am quite happy with the "retro toy" feel.



Great job, but.....

Worst Dalek foe ever. They even beat the disco inferno that is the Movellan race.

I love the metallic green too.

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Worst Dalek foe ever. They even beat the disco inferno that is the Movellan race.

While I agree that Suzanne Danielle is much more shapely than any Mechonoid, I don't think the disco balls of doom where that inept - roasting Daleks in "The Chase" and using paranoia rays in the comic seems competent enough to me.  ;)

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The spherical robot servants remind me of 'Mechanoids', of which I have a very dim childhood recollection...
Not being much of a Dr Who fan (sorry) since he came back in his second lease of life, I've lost track of most things 'Whovian'.
The mechanoids were dalek-tech? Or enemies? Can't remember - it was a VERY long time ago...

They will also make excellent Christmas tree decorations  ;)

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The spherical robot servants remind me of 'Mechanoids'

That's them.  They were supposed to be robots humans had sent ahead to prepare the colony world of Mechanus, but who then didn't recognise humans when they did turn up.  They had a big fight with the Daleks in the "Planet of Decision", the last episode of the 1965 story generally known as "The Chase".

The BBC obviously had high hopes for them at first: they were given appearances in the TV Century 21 "Daleks" comic strip, and in that year's hardback annual The Dalek World.  There was even a small plastic toy range.  But it came to nothing, because those geodesic sphere casings were enormous and really difficult to manage in the studio.  It didn't help that their electronic voices were pretty much incomprehensible, too.  So they never appeared in the TV series again.  I believe that they have appeared in one of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio plays - "The Juggernauts", with Colin Baker's Doctor - but I haven't heard that one.

There was a Mechanoid in the Harlequin/Icon/Black Tree Doctor Who range, but it was much too small.  The ones Westfalia Chris has shown here were sculpted by An Evil Giraffe, and are available from Ainsty Castings' Professor What range under the name "Mechanots".
« Last Edit: June 08, 2015, 06:58:06 PM by Steve F »

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That's them.  They were supposed to be robots humans had sent ahead to prepare the colony world of Mechanus, but who then didn't recognise humans when they did turn up.  They had a big fight with the Daleks in the "Planet of Decision", the last episode of the 1965 story know generally known as "The Chase".

The BBC obviously had high hopes for them at first: they were given appearances in the TV Century 21 "Daleks" comic strip, and in that year's hardback annual The Dalek World.  There was even a small plastic toy range.  But it came to nothing, because those geodesic sphere casings were enormous and really difficult to manage in the studio.  It didn't help that their electronic voices were pretty much incomprehensible, too.  So they never appeared in the TV series again.  I believe that they have appeared in one of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio plays - "The Juggernauts", with Colin Baker's Doctor - but I haven't heard that one.

There was a Mechanoid in the Harlequin/Icon/Black Tree Doctor Who range, but it was much too small.  The ones Westfalia Chris has shown here were sculpted by An Evil Giraffe, and are available from Ainsty Castings' Professor What range under the name "Mechanots".

Didn't know AEG sculpted them!

 

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