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Robot

The first episode with the fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) was Robot.

Mortally weakened by the Spider Queen on Metebelis 3, the Doctor is forced to regenerate. His recuperation is cut short as UNIT investigates a spate of robberies involving components for a top-secret disintegrator gun. The culprit is quickly identified as a highly sophisticated robot built by Professor Kettlewell, being ordered to act against its Prime Directive.

Just how is the robot being used to carry out the sinister agenda of the Scientific Reform Society? Can the Doctor rescue Sarah from the robot’s clutches and avert a nuclear war?

I really like this episode, lots of UNIT action (even if they do use an Action Man Scorpion Tank in one shot).

This is the metal miniature that was made by Harlequin Miniatures.

This is the “normal” size of the Robot when we first meet it.

Of course…

Spoiler Alert

One of the plot points in the story is that the Robot does get bigger… that’s the reason the novelisation is called Doctor Who and the Giant Robot! I wish I had bought one of the 7″ Action Figures of the Robot as that would be perfect for the big version. If I see one, I might get one, but I don’t think they make it anymore, which is a pity.

Kingdom of Britannia Eagle Class War Rotor

Dystopian Wars is a miniatures games from Spartan Games.

The Eagle Class War Rotor is a marvel of Her Majesty’s Flying Corps and the pride of any pilot that is granted the honour of captaining one. Years of engineering have gone into the development of this flying behemoth, and the utilisation of hybrid rotor driven propulsion and Sturginium-enhanced Anti-Gravitation generators allows thousands of tonnes of British steel to glide into the sky above the battlefield, much to the horror of its foes.

This is how it looks from the marketing material.

The model itself comes in a blister.

It is a combined resin model with metal parts miniature.

V2

Forged in Battle on their Facebook page have showed off a V2 rocket with armoured half-track.

Looks very nice, though not so sure about the exhaust smoke, looks like it has been modelled as just taking off. Not so useful as an objective, but nonetheless could still be used.

The 7th Doctor

I always liked the Tom Baker era of the classic Doctor Who, but Sylvester McCoy I also felt was pretty good and some of my favourite Doctor Who stories are from that era, Remembrance of the Daleks, the Curse of Fenric and Silver Nemesis. All good scenarios for gaming too.

I do have a 7th Doctor miniature from the Harlequin Miniatures that will go nicely with the Ace miniature I have.

The Seventh Doctor was the seventh incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. Originally an eccentric, light-hearted buffoon, this incarnation’s jolly persona eventually darkened into that of a mysterious, cunning manipulator to properly combat the return of Fenric.

Old West Steam Tank

I recently wrote a blog article on adding Science Fiction elements to Old West gaming, SteamPunk Old West.

I wanted a couple of vehicles to go with the Old West miniatures that were on my workbench. I bought a couple of resin models from Ironclad miniatures, including one of the steam tanks. It comes in a variety of pieces.

In order to paint it I am going to keep the tracks and turret separate from the main hull. The model went together very easily and needed minimal work or preparation.

Here is the tank assemblies together to see what the finished tank will look like.

I will be giving the model a white undercoat and then a basecoat of sand.

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Ace

Ace is a 16-year-old who first appears in the 1987 serial Dragonfire, where she is working as a waitress in the frozen food retail complex of Iceworld on the planet Svartos. She had been a troubled teen on Earth, having been expelled from school for blowing up the art room as a “creative statement”. Gifted in chemistry (despite failing it for her A-levels), she was in her room experimenting with the extraction of nitroglycerin from gelignite when a time storm swept her up and transported her to Iceworld, and far in her future. There, she meets the Doctor and his companion Mel. When Mel leaves the Doctor at the conclusion of the serial, he offers to take Ace with him in the TARDIS, and she happily accepts

Back in the 1990s Harlequin Miniatures produced a licensed range of 28mm metal miniatures and I bought some blisters. One of these was Ace.

Tunnelling Machine

The pieces of the Ironclad Miniatures Tunnelling Machine were very clean and needed minimal work to get them sorted.

The pieces went together very easily.

Next stage will be an undercoat, I am undecided to go with a black or white undercoat. I am going for a wooden hull though.

The Brigadier

Here is another of the metal miniatures from Harlequin Miniatures. This is Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart was one of the founders of UNIT and commander of its UK operations. From his second incarnation onwards, notwithstanding some early tension between the two at the start of his third incarnation, the Doctor long considered the Brigadier one of his most trusted human allies and closest friends, having encountered him in all of his incarnations, with the exceptions of his ninth and eleventh.

…and a little bit more.

Paint disaster aside, I spent some time painting a little bit more of my Ork Stompa.

Here are the feet.

The main problem with the paint was twofold. The first problem was with my Citadel foundation paints they were quite old and had dried out. Second problem was with my Citadel washes, which had gone weird and no amount of mixing could sort them out.