So, it used to be the case that I’d watch YouTube while doing the washing up or cooking dinner, but instead I’ve started watching classic Doctor Who - I watched a bunch of Pertwee stories (as he’s I think my favourite Doctor from childhood), and even discovered a newfound appreciation for Patrick Troughton after enjoying the War Games enough that I went back and watched some of his serials too! Enjoying these so much (especially Inferno, with it’s parallel universe eyepatch wearing Brigadier shenanigans), I was enthused to cajole my children into continuing watching modern Who, and also to set about prepping and painting some Whoniverse miniatures.
On the painting front, I finished this miniature of the Doctor’s twelfth incarnation:
He’s been sat undercoated for far too long, so I’m happy to finally have him done! He’s a slightly odd choice for me to have painted though, as I think we only got two episodes into Capaldi’s run before falling off watching the series, and are now working our way back to that point, but that’s neither here nor there.
According to Wikipedia his jacket and trousers should actually be dark blue rather than black, which probably would have been easier to paint - I used a Chris Peach inspired method for painting the blacks, which has come out a little shiny, but I think that’s mostly due to me being a bit heavy handed with using a dark wash to knock back the highlights.
Speaking of highlights, I was having a play with my phone while taking these pictures, and tried some using macro mode:
I think it looks much the same as the original, admittedly. The picture of the back of him had I think a truer representation of the colours, but was also sadly out of focus when I came to include it in this post so I’m going to omit it.
Finishing him brings the Tally to:
15 vs 206 = -191
Long term, I’ve had an idea what I want to do with my various miniatures of Doctors - down in the basement, I have this Tardis display case that was released for the Micro Universe figures:
Inside there are 32 spaces for miniatures, so I figure I could do Doctors down the left, companions on the right:
Here’s a sneak preview of what I’ve been prepping too:
Anyone who says that a Dalek isn’t poseable just isn’t trying hard enough…
On the non-Who front, we’ve been decorating our clipboards for the family D&D game:
Including my daughter teaching me how to make DIY stickers, so that I could make a custom sticker of her brother’s character for his clipboard:
And the cultists and treasure
seen in my last post also go a run out today - the cultists fared much worse than the dragon (dubbed Drago Malloy in my head so that I could keep his voice and character fixed in mind):
What’s next? Nothing, in theory, as I really should be packing everything up to move, but what has actually happened is I’ve dug out a load of other Who minis in various states of bare metal and undercoated, (as well as heavily hinting to my daughter and wife that a miniature that looks an awful lot like Pertwee would make an excellent Father’s Day gift) so watch this space…
