nothing that special really... finished the Micro Universe Cybermen I started mucking about with ages ago... nothing flash really with the paint job, although just noticed the gammy knee on the Cyberleader which will need a touch up... no idea what happened there... anyhoo just a quick paint job as a side project to something else I'm working on at the moment...
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Age of Steel...
I swear I'm going to go blind one day... it can be the stillest day imaginable, but as soon as I press down on that dullcote nozzle a bloody breeze will make sure most of it goes right in my face... sigh...
nothing that special really... finished the Micro Universe Cybermen I started mucking about with ages ago... nothing flash really with the paint job, although just noticed the gammy knee on the Cyberleader which will need a touch up... no idea what happened there... anyhoo just a quick paint job as a side project to something else I'm working on at the moment...
there would have been more of them, except you just can't get the Gangs of Mega City One Street Gang set anymore, so my source of replacement hands has dried up.... I had also planned some part cybernised humans, but the difference in physical dimensions between the MU and metal mini's made it look really odd... do have some plans though for other part cybernised types...
nothing that special really... finished the Micro Universe Cybermen I started mucking about with ages ago... nothing flash really with the paint job, although just noticed the gammy knee on the Cyberleader which will need a touch up... no idea what happened there... anyhoo just a quick paint job as a side project to something else I'm working on at the moment...
Monday, 20 April 2009
two more Doctors...
the 5th and 6th Doctors...
the likenesses aren't great and the casting on the 6th Doctor looks like he's had a mild stroke as his face has dropped slightly... also, oddly, the casting looks like the head was removed and reattached off centre... wish I'd noticed that before I'd started painting as I would have removed it and repositioned it... what I did notice is that the casting of the 6th Doctor doesn't have the long lapels of the actual costume, so they were added with greenstuff and are present in a vision of yellow and pink...
the alternating red, cream, brown, cream stripes of the 5th Doctor's trousers were tricky and at that thickness, the red and brown are very similar, but I'm happy enough...

the 6th Doctor's clothes... well, they're as close as I can get, except the collar and pocket flaps - for some reason I just could not get something that looked right for how they actually were... so I fudged it and went with a blue/white check (and there was never any blue in the original coat due to limitations of the special effects work)... looks ok, not 100% but spent about as long on those three small bits as I did on the rest of the coat... his waistcoat and necktie changed between stories, so I made that up a bit... only downside is the brightness plays havoc with my auto focus... his face looks a bit soft in some shots...

now, something I didn't notice til I was commited with the paint job was the absence of a button tie detail thingy (whatever that may be called) at the rear above the tails...
and the Doctors so far...
the likenesses aren't great and the casting on the 6th Doctor looks like he's had a mild stroke as his face has dropped slightly... also, oddly, the casting looks like the head was removed and reattached off centre... wish I'd noticed that before I'd started painting as I would have removed it and repositioned it... what I did notice is that the casting of the 6th Doctor doesn't have the long lapels of the actual costume, so they were added with greenstuff and are present in a vision of yellow and pink...
the alternating red, cream, brown, cream stripes of the 5th Doctor's trousers were tricky and at that thickness, the red and brown are very similar, but I'm happy enough...
and the Doctors so far...
Thursday, 9 April 2009
UNIT rollcall...
right, this is UNIT as it stands (minus sundry civilian hangers on - hmmm... I guess Harry falls through the cracks there)... at least almost everyone is in focus...



Wednesday, 8 April 2009
UNIT Landrover
photos aren't brilliant as I was running against the low battery indicator...
1/48th white metal model I bought about 10 or 12 years ago and promptly buried in the lead mountain. It was only when I saw one on eBay (which went for a horribly large amount) that I remembered it. The hamfisted gluing of a decade ago made it unlikely to fetch anything near the mint kit got...


It's the same scale as the Mobile HQ and (assuming the BBC OB van is based on a standard Bedford chasis) they match up quite well and really gives the Mobile HQ some real bulk...



1/48th white metal model I bought about 10 or 12 years ago and promptly buried in the lead mountain. It was only when I saw one on eBay (which went for a horribly large amount) that I remembered it. The hamfisted gluing of a decade ago made it unlikely to fetch anything near the mint kit got...
It's the same scale as the Mobile HQ and (assuming the BBC OB van is based on a standard Bedford chasis) they match up quite well and really gives the Mobile HQ some real bulk...
Friday, 27 March 2009
Hasslefresian the Troll Slayer
OK... so first off, no this isn't the Citadel dwarfs that it should have been... I've really struggled to progress with those, they're just not inspiring me, so I figured I'd work on something else and here it is... and, well, I was motivated, sorry about that...
So... Hasslefree's Hasslefresian the Troll Slayer:
I wanted a nice natural look for him, very outdoorsy, so went with leathers and bronzes and a nice fleecy lining to his boots... after all that brown though I needed something else for his hair... red/orange is of course traditional for slayers, but Kev's sculpted him with short hair rather than shaved either side of the crest, and I didn't reckon it would look right, so a natural hair colour and there was enough brown on him already...
So... Hasslefree's Hasslefresian the Troll Slayer:
Friday, 20 March 2009
Cyclops again...
I've just noticed that Andy at Heresy has put my painted Nabrott up on his site. Go and buy one now... : )
http://www.heresyminiatures.com/hm030.htm
Obviously this can't count towards the mini a month post thing I set myself, some 80's Citadel Dwarves are in progress for that and should be done by the end of the month (hopefully - been a weary month)...
http://www.heresyminiatures.com/hm030.htm
Obviously this can't count towards the mini a month post thing I set myself, some 80's Citadel Dwarves are in progress for that and should be done by the end of the month (hopefully - been a weary month)...
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