Third Series Confirmed

The BBC have confirmed that there will be a third series of Doctor Who, even before the first is finished and the second has started filming.

With two christmas specials as well, there are going to be twenty-eight new episodes of Doctor Who to look forward to.

Sadly Chris is leaving after Saturday’s episode, but Billie will be in all of series two, and the new doctor is David Tennant.

David Tennant
Kelly Reilly as Allison and David Tennant as Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger. Photo credit: Euan Myles.

We will also see the return of the Cybermen!

Cybermen

Photographic Terrain Grass, more foliage added…

I have now added some more foliage using a rougher Woodland Scenics flock and some lichen as a base to give it some depth.

Photographic Terrain Grass

You can now see the look I was going through with this cropped image.

Photographic Terrain Grass

This is a picture of my Ork Skorcha in the morning sun.

Ork Skorcha

I have based the look on real places and this was based on Cheddar Gorge.

Photographic Terrain Grass

Since the last picture was taken I have drybrushed the rock face and the rocks with various shades of grey.

I then with a brush put some PVA (white glue) down before covering it with a Woodland Scenics grass flock.

Photographic Terrain Grass

This is a close-up of the Ork vehicle in the terrain.

Photographic Terrain Grass

Still needing to add some more foliage and some different flock to get a more natural feel.

Collaborator, a good read

I have just finished reading Collaborator by Murray Davies which is set in a nazi occupied Britain and tells the story of a British soldier working for the occupying forces as a translator who then gets involved in the resistance…

CollaboratorDecember 1940 and England lies under German occupation. In the West Country, Nick Penny comes home after four months as a prisoner of war to act as interpreter to the provincial governor. He finds his father dead, his mother crippled, and his best friend Roy heavily involved in a resistance movement. When war hero Matty Cordington returns to run his father’s estate, the three friends are re-united in a common purpose.

Life under the occupation becomes a compromise at every level. Nick’s sister Joan sleeps with a profiteer to find food for her family. There are leaks in the resistance movement, and Matty’s girlfriend is fingered and dispatched. The occupation turns nastier as Hitler invades Russia, with less food and greater demands on the civilian population to labour in the Reich. Britain’s Jews are first deported, then the ‘Final Solution’ is enacted on English soil.

But treachery still dogs the resistance and, hunted by the Gestapo and the British police, Nick and his girlfriend Angel desperately race to eliminate the real traitor. The story then escalates to an explosive climax at the very centre of occupational power.

It is a very good read and though it has something of a slow start it certainly picks up towards the end of the book.

Get Collaborator from Amazon.