Windmill 123...

UNIT helicopter...

1/48 Corgi diecast Bell 47 that was one of many bargains from Salute (cheers Karl)... basic repaint over the existing job - made easy as the plastic/metal used the same olive green as me (although have noticed a blip in the pic on the top of the skid which stands out, may have rubbed some paint off without realising...), the danger sticker was on the original (carefully painted around) and homemade UNIT decals were added...

couldn't for the life of me remove the bubble canopy to paint the interior (the single screw did nothing when unscrewed) so it was either paint it or have a crappy plastic interior... on the plus side, it matches the Mobile HQ and Lanny windows and will never look like it's piloted by the invisible man...

speaking of which a flight stand is in hand...

the 'what every good Doctor Who story needs' project part 4

right... basic build done... need to do the gravel/dirt transition at the top which I'm hoping will be successfully achieved with torn cork tile...

the eagle-eyed amongst you may notice the promontory is now longer than the earlier shots, it looked too stumpy and is now a full length of A4 with the end piece now seperate... still fits in two boxes though with space to spare so I need to come up with something a little extra...

still a few kinks in the joining edges which need fixing (really do need plans when I do this sort of thing) but basically that should be that... have run out of filler and sandpaper though...

also had a thought - quite random and may not do anything with it, but do some high security fences and it could do service as somekind of animal enclosure... raptors maybe?

the 'what every good Doctor Who story needs' project part 3

right... I have to say that the upper levels have stumped me a bit... the replication of the 25mm thick layers wasn't going to look right so I had to have a rethink and this is what I'm going with at the moment...

I think the larger slabs need a bit more definition, have been adding bits that jut out a bit to make it more rugged and less of a flat surface (looks good from looking up from the base), which have helped break up the large flat surface, but not sure how much of that I can get away with... there is some grooving and so on in there, but it's been partially killed by the flash... I also scored the 3rd 25mm layer into two layers for a bit more variety, but again, that's barely visible...

it certainly won't be any higher than that, as that's the depth of the paper box it will be stored in, allowing for the base and the rock/dirt/grass transitional layer on the top...

a Rose by any other name...

Crooked Dice's Daisy Taylor...

a really nice sculpt by Andrew Rae (Korosho Productions) for Karl and Graeme at Crooked Dice, she is due to appear on the Crooked Dice website at some point - hence the extra effort on the base (for me at anyrate)... chip and burger papers and a crushed Fosters can made from Rizla paper... it will probably get rebased at some point as it won't match any of the other stuff and I have little to no urban terrain planned (dreamed of, but not planned)...

UNIT pilot....

still working on his ride, but a quickie for the UNIT pilot...

after trying just the visor shield and giving him a logo (all very Top Gun), but that didn't work so finally settled on the familar UNIT mustard for the helmet... tried mirrored shades as well, but they didn't look right either, so stayed with black (which helps hide the fact that the face is slightly off centre in the helmet)...

need to varnish and then finish the base, but July was looking bare as I've been doing stuff, but not finishing much...

the figure is from the Mo-Fo Mogadishu range, have plans for the wounded downed pilots in the same pack...

the 'what every good Doctor Who story needs' project part 2

just caught up with the two end pieces after a week away housesitting... first is the corner piece, with the passage that leads to the Skin Room cave, and alongside is the central cave piece and then the wide gallery... at the end is trailing edge that would take the rest of it 'off table' as it were... I've put some platforms on that end piece to allow for figure placement... I may or may not make the top accessible, haven't decided yet, will probably not to be honest...



I had the pieces stacked up earlier while I was working on the trailing end and the long gallery looked quite good high up the cliff face... I won't do it on these ones, but may do another piece with a high gallery just for some variety... it's also just big enough to fit the Dalek saucer in... very Thunderbirds...