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Skele guy still needs painted yet. The library and canyon are printed. The dalek scene is a piece of foamboard with large 'pearl' beads set in place, airbrushed bronze, going to put some windows yet. The cave scene is plaster cloth and hydrocal/plaster/whatever you wanna call it.

Hoping to get a lot done this weekend, have had some slowdown over the week.

I'll see to pictures as I get the chance, I've done a bit of work.

Canyon scene-based, the talus/ballast/fancy sand is down. I'll let you guys look at it and you can let me know if it needs some washes or is GtG.

Dalek ship scene- windows added. I'm kind of torn on doing window frames, they're like port-holes kind of. I'll post it up when I can and you guys can advise perhaps.

10th doctor sans coat is finished, gave him a wash of ghost tint: blue to cover up the little specks of white showing, and dipped. Dip made him look better, it's disturbing how well it works.

Daleks are sealed, they did not get dipped, the drill-spin and flick methods for removing excess dip were both impossible due to the magnets. The copper went down fairly well, though I put down several layers of brass on the little nubby things on the bottom half, and it just isn't showing up to me. I instead washed the copper parts with ghost tint: brown, and tried to miss the parts what were supposed to be shinier. I think they're obviously daleks and it works for me.

Still need to prime the astronauts, and to paint the last 5 models belonging to the lit scenes. I'm probably not going to do super dramatic contrast, I just want enough light in the library to make two thrown shadows obvious, and the glowy skull-face a bit more noticeable. And looking back at the episode with time crack in that cave, it didn't really produce a whole lot of light, slash, the light was pretty even. I still wanna have the portions facing the light brighter though.

I cut and glued a couple of windows, have six more to do and should have just enough material to do it. I need to cut out the frames though, I want to do something simple, probably just little strips of plasticard, either stock white or airbrushed blue.

While I was printing the scenes for the windows, I printed out 4 police public call box signs, and the little informational paper that goes on the front door, and I cut out 4 backing pieces upon which to mount the callbox signs. I should have made them a touch larger, in retrospect, but I think we'll manage.

Images when I get the chance to take some photos!


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So here's one panel with the 'glass' in, though I still need to frame it to match the concept.


10th Doctor is drying, so 9th Doctor is helping show off the canyon scene. Do the rocks look rocky enough, or do I need to do some washing, or outright painting of them?


Boom. Aside from gluing everyone in place... this scene could be done. I quite like how it's turned out so far, though I may try to get the studs in the wall to show up a bit differently for contrast. Do the windows need some kind of frame? Ideally, I'd have just cut the wall out to fit them snugly. Hell... I may still do that though everything is glued now. What say you fine folks? Hmm.. another thought is that I could paint the rim of the 'glass' copper to match the wall, implying a setting.


Still have 5 more minis to paint, 6 more windows glass and then frame, the little flashy light for the top, and that's just about it.

Looks neat, especially the Daleks. I'd do a wash on the sand just to add a little more definition, maybe a dark brown to tie it in to the surroundings.

Yeah. The larger talus stuff has some different colors, but the smaller ballast stuff is pretty uniform. Looks boring.

Looking fantastic. Maybe a dark wash around the wall studs - just around their edges to make them pop a bit more. I'll also second the comment about the sand. If you have time, either frames or recessing those windows would make them look even better.

Thanks.
I'm leaving the windows for towards the end but I'm considering it for sure. Sand has been washed with a mix of brown and golden yellow tint. I wanted to do the studs in brass, but my airbrush brass is being problematic via normal brush. I may try it with the AB before the end. And a wash around them should help them look even better, so thanks for that


I've just positioned the last 5 minis and marked the shadow zone on their nails so I'll know how to paint them. I've got 2-3 options as I see it.

Do everything by hand, try to improve my weak blending skills.

Paint them just like the first five, then airbrush a thin black ink/ghost tint on the shadow zone to darken them.

The astronauts I'm probably going to do with the airbrush almost entirely except for small details, probably start them grey, airbrush the shadow area like above, and then thin white going the other way.

We'll see what works.

This looks neato!

Thanks

Work on the blending skills. You'll want those for Infinity minis.

Good progress. Very cool idea and nicely realized.

I'm feeling the time crunch, without a deadline I could have been more professional about some things... but I'll be honest and say I do kind of like knocking stuff out over taking a huge amount of time.

Blending would probably be nice to have for my infinity stuff. We'll see if I can put up with something so time consuming though, I'm pretty lazy.

Time crunch! I've got all of 10 days left to finish this project, and when you consider only two of those days are weekend days that I"ll be working... ouch. I've got GenCon next weekend, so that leaves until about wednesday next week to finish the Dr Who 'Rama up. Just gotta finish some details on the box, I may have an idea for the light on top even, and paint the last five models. I think because of the time crunch, my first attempt at lighting will be to paint one of the models normally like the first five, and then dust it lightly from behind with either black paint or ink/wash/glaze with the airbrush. This may or may not work to my satisfaction, but I think I need to try something quick to have enough time to finish up.

Any suggestions for the frames for the window panes? I've half a mind to leave them alone for enhanced visibility... but they seem like an almost iconic detail and the outside of the tardis is pretty simple as it is.

Just to prove I didn't blab about a time crunch and then promptly sit around doing nothing...



Just some base colors down. Though the dip will take care of shading for the most part, there's still more work to do, and clean up. I'm going to try to get the boots and jacket looking a bit more like that faux fur/suede light/medium grey stuff uhh...


Kind of like that... but I swear I've seen it with a bit more range from dark to light.

Anyway, seemed appropriate maybe.

I decided to do the blue suit again on the second 10th doctor for better contrast with the brown coat, same reason I kept the red shoes instead of the cream colored version he'd have been more likely to wear with the all brown. Need to research colors for 11 more since I'm less familiar with those episodes, and figure out the astronauts. I'm gonna get everyone painted properly because I know the recipient isn't going to care about source lighting. If there's time, I'll go back and redress it, but I've still got some things to do to the police box yet.

After a dip and cleanup they should look great. No idea how to go about the faux leather/suede though. I hope that whoever is getting the diorama box will appreciate the time and hard work that has gone into it Grim.

Its for my sister, she's a Dr Who nut so I think she'll like it. I'm gonna wash and highlight the boots until they look right instead of just straight dipping them now.

Kinda hope to get the painting done today. Gotta make the outside presentable too.

You can do it! That is a lovely gift for your sister, the next step is to get off the internet for a bit (meant in the nicest and most positive way possible!).

Haha, I know what you meant Daughter is napping, perhaps I'll make some progress.


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Just so ToT quits hassling me to work... ()



I think these three are just about ready for dip. I'm gonna go charge up the compressor so I can get the last two astronaut minis ready to paint as well.


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I'll reserve final judgement for after the dippening (should be a word...), but I'm really liking the colors for Pond and the 11th Doctor. You might have to click the image and zoom in, but I managed to get everyone's eyebrows (actually I just *now* did 11th doctor, it's missing from the picture). And I think I managed to do the lipstick for pond subtly enough that you notice it but she doesn't look like a clown. I really need to do some research into faces, I know you can add some expression and play with the age by subtle blending and highlights, but I'm just not that good yet... plus time crunch.

I'm just happy to have gotten 3 sets of eyes more or less right and remembered the eyebrows and such. I would like to stripe 11th doctors shirt subtly but I don't think I've got a steady enough hand to do it, especially not in a hurry.

They look good. I'm sure you'll finish in plenty of time.

The internet is to occupy us while we wait for the paint or glue to dry

^The man Quoth the Truth!

Space suits re-primed, I think I'll dip the others here in a minute so they're ready to work with in the morning...

Trying to sort out a little logistical thing with the 'police box' signs and how they're going to be mounted. Then it's just handles for the front door (decoration only) and the light on top. Trying to get the things that I need to do outside my hobby room (airbrushing mostly) done during nap time.


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Going to call the dip a success. 11th doctors eyes are harder to see now for some reason, maybe the paint wasn't dry. I may have to fix them but everything else looks better than when it went in, woot!

Gonna do the 'police box' pieces now.

Tick-Tock, Clarice...

Meep!

Now I'm stressed and terrified!

Daughter woke up before I could finish the police box additions, but they will be easy and won't take long to dry. I need to finish the spacemen tonight and try to dip them so they'll be workable tomorrow.

Roughly posed as they'll go in the library scene.

Should I go over the shadowed portion of the doctor to help him fit the environment suits? Is the shading on them too bad to go along with? The blue source light from the standing suit's chest... how can I make it better? I think the idea is there... but it's kind of rough.


How can I improve?


Here are the three from yesterday after dip, looking good to me, trying to decide if I want to black wash the shadowed portions a bit before I seal them.

Thanks for watching guys, as soon as I can get to the airbrush the outside is going to be close to finished, just gotta do the light on top and consider the windows.

Looks fine to me, if you want to up the OSL's effect then paint a brighter shade on the hard edges facing the source, and then even brighting on the source itself, looks great as-is, though!

Sounds good, I blue-washed the effected area to tie it in and things got a bit more muted. I just about have my light sorted for the top too.

Looks good to me, captures the atmosphere of those spooky scenes from the episode. The ultimate would be to have button to press that plays "Hey, who turned out the lights?" on a loop!

Great to see you getting through so much work over the weekend. How much work remains on the actual Tardis itself?

Not much, I finally figured something out for the light on top that should be good enough. The whole tardis is kind of weird, being made of foamcore board, kind of like something made of legos, it has tiers instead of slopes and stuff. Doesn't bother me though, and my sister is getting it for free so she hopefully won't complain

I've got to airbrush the components of the light and the bars that will mount the ''police public call box'' signs blue. Then I've got to attach the bars and assemble the light, then attach it as well. I've got to put on the paper signs, including the information poster for the front door, and maybe sort out some handles.

I want to put bars on the windows, but if it doesn't happen I'm just going to call it artistic license so you can see in through them better.

So I dunno, maybe an hour or two total on the outside? If I'm slow or overly cautious, It may be more like 30 minutes if you don't count drying times.


And the figure are all painted, just need to be secured in place. And maybe some black washes (on the shadowed portions) on the last three to go with the mood lighting of their scenes. Maybe. What do you guys think?


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Ok pretty much got it, just need to wait for the dip on the astronauts to cure so I can seal them, and I've got to glue everyone down.


I need some kind of handles for the front, thoughts?


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Well I rushed things along and got done today, woot! I delivered it, sister liked it quite a bit. I'll call the project a success. I may do a postmortem later but I managed to slightly burn a couple of my fingers earlier cooking so I don't feel like typing that much atm.

Pictures to follow, got a few batches to upload.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-70053-42591_Thinking%20Of%20Who.html

^Gallery, in case I get lazy and don't post them up tonight.

Photo dump...

Canyon Showdown:









Defender of Earth, or, Old Enemies









Count the Shadows










A Crack in Time











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Like I said, postmortem later. Gonna clip most of that last post and throw it to the wolves in the showcase forum just for kicks.

Looks great - and good to see that your sister loved it as well.

Very impressive, a worthy gift and a project to be proud of! Great stuff!

Thanks guys

This blog will probably slow down a bit as I take a break and do a palette cleanse before my next diorama, but I've had an idea that should keep me moving through synergy.

So the gist, I've decided to --tentatively-- do a 2x2' deadzone board with kind of a desert outpost theme. This is not a diorama, but an alternative to the normal city mat and DZ tiles. How it ties in... I'm going to pioneer the techniques for the board while doing my samurai/ninja diorama. The Samurai is a merc and the ninjas will go where he goes to hunt him, so he just happens to have been caught in a futuristic desert outpost. This will let me work out the methods for my desert board, get started on my next diorama right away without feeling like I have to, and just win through synergy in general.

So, I'll be back with updates as I have them, probably some slow down due to GenCon and unboxing posts on the other blog for a week or two.