... or, Chris finally "got" what is great about Doctor Who.
Seriously, as noted before on various occasions, despite being a huge Sci-Fi nut, I never quite understood the fascination people harbour for Doctor Who (although I instantly loved the Daleks when I first encountered them in a 1993 issue of Model and Collectors' Mart magazine on my first voyage to the UK). I blame it on the first "proper" contact being a number of out-of-order episodes of the Sixth Doctor being the only ones aired in Germany.
Nonetheless, back when I was living in the UK, I got a couple of the magazine plastic Daleks "just in case", and sometime earlier this year, the penny finally dropped, helped by the release of the Seventh Doctor in a proper DVD edition. It may be a sign of me getting old, but it ties in nicely with my increasing sense of 1960s/70s pseudonostalgia, and what with an increasing number of useful figures coming out over the years, I set out to do a Doctor Who project.
I'll be using the DWMG rules with a variety of miniatures, the first of which you may have seen over the course of this year's LPL season. Some more stuff will feature at a later time, but I will also show some minis which won't be part of the remaining LPL rounds.
Do not expect stringent continuity, since I'll happily mix-and-match whatever Who stuff I happen to like. None for the purists, this one.
Pics, now, or it didn't happen!
First off, I painted the lot of Daleks I had lying around since 2010. I opted for a scheme inspired by the fun-looking Cushing Who films since I wanted to try out metallics combined with translucent paint (more on that later) and because it made painting the hemis much easier.
Blue squad:
Red squad:
Specialists - two engineers, Black Dalek, support dalek with twin blasters:
The Emperor, inspired by the TV21 comic version:
Moving on beyond Skaro, a squad of Time Commandos:
A grumpy group of Sontarans:
And finally, four Autons, which didn't quite work out as planned - may strip and redo them at a later time:
That's it for starters. I've still got a couple of factions lined up which I will feature at a later time, and am planning to do some Sci-Fi and 1960s/70s London terrain pieces, which, although generic enough to be used in other settings, should have a definitive whovian slant to them.
Thanks for looking, comments and questions welcome!
23 March 2011, 07:37:48 PM