Lil Ghosty

 I was very kindly sent an absolutely wonderful Little Ghost figure from armchairgeneral over on LAF & loved it so much I just needed to paint it straight away. The figure is made by RBJ Game Co.

Thanks

1980’s Citadel Doctor Who U.N.I.T squad

 Next on the list is a mix of 80s Citadel/FASA  U.N.I.T Troops with a Land Rover from Twisted Pinnacle 3d. Some of the troops have had head tweaks & the U.N.I.T symbol on the Landy is drawn in AutoCAD & printed on paper.

Sci-Fi Base Run Through

 I thought I would do a quick run through of how I've being tackling the bases for the Doctor Who collection.

I use a mixture of Green stuff & Milliput, depending what I grab first, sometimes on its own or mixed.

I roll it out using a bit of copper pipe & some strips of plastic to get the height i want, then 2 thinner strips for the texture roller to try to keep the putty imprint level. I spray the putty with a mist of water to try to stop the rollers sticking. I had been using a thin silicone mat to roll everthing out on, but it was too thin & I got a lot of wonky bases so have stopped using it.

I Found a Copper Pipe Reducer that is the right diameter to fit inside the lipped bases & i use this to cut the discs out with.

All the gubbins: Texture rollers, Copper pipe 'rolling pin', Plastic Strip Height Guides, 

Pipe Reducer & Putty

Pile of base toppers good & Bad (Hopefully the bad ones can be used for the Ice Warriors)

I start painting them with a base of Vallejo Green Grey then Sponge Deck Tan on top & Follow this with a wash of Blue Grey that I've mixed up from Grey & Blue Inks,

The next process is a light sponging of Deck tan. I picked up a fantastic weathering sponge tool, from Notts Hobbies & just use some blister pack sponge for this. 

This is followed by some weathering by sponging on Black Brown & Dark Rust & finally just tidy up the base edges with black.

Vallejo Paint Selection: Blue Grey Ink Wash, Green Grey, Deck Tan, Black brown & Dark Rust

Bits of Blister Pack Sponge & Weathering Sponge Tool from Notts Hobbies

Green Grey Base Coat & Sponged on Deck Tan

Blue Grey wash & light Deck Tan sponging

Black Brown & Dark Rust Weathering Sponged on

I hope that someone find this useful.

More 1980’s Citadel Miniatures Doctor Who, Painted Plastic Cybermen & Crooked Dice Cybermats

Did some more plastic Cybermen & Crooked Dice Cybermats.

The bases take longer to do than the figures 🤣

 

Crooked Dice Scooter Gang

 I’ve wanted to do the Crooked Dice Scooter Gang for years & have finally got round to it.

All I can say is……. What a bloody nightmare they are, lovely sculpts, poorly designed for ease of painting. The two figures that are riding come with their legs cast on the Vespa & the torso separate. This makes it extremely difficult to paint them as you can’t paint them separately as they don’t line up properly with headset for the scooter & need cutting & filling at various points get everything aligned properly as can be seen below

And the finished gang below, it’s a shame that there wasn’t a spare hand flicking the V’s for the leader rather than the pistol..

1980’s Citadel Miniatures Doctor Who, Painted Metal & Plastic Cybermen

 Well, after painting all the Doctors & Companions, I thought it was about time I got back to some bad guys. I had a few of The Cybermen cleaned up & undercoated so I got them painted.

Just a quick job of Basecoat Warpaints Gun metal, Vallejo Oily Steel dry brush highlight then another of Oily Steel/Miniature paints Silver mix followed by a wash of P3 Armour Wash then a final dry brush of Silver & some Red on the weapons.

A metal Cyberman flanked by two plastic Cybermen

1980’s Citadel Miniatures Doctor Who, Painted Companions Adric & Turlough

 Well the final two companions are completed, so that's all of the Citadel Doctors & Companions finished & the set is complete.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing them progress as much as I have painting them.

I think it will be Cybermen & UNIT next. 

Wish I could find a Captain Yates for the UNIT squad, I've never seen one available anywhere!

 

1980’s Citadel Miniatures Doctor Who, Painted Companions Leela & Romana

 Thats Two more of the Doctors Companions done, Leela & Romana. Leela isn't the best likeness & Romana I think definitely has the right sort of feel for her 😕

Anyway here's the picture

Only (in my personal opinion) two of the most annoying companions left, Adric & Turlough. 

Pub Finally Painted

 Well I finally managed to get the pub finished. I found a sign on the internet & distressed it up a bit & for the frosted glass I lightly sanded some clear plastic.

1980’s Citadel Miniatures Doctor Who, Painted 4th & 5th Doctors

 Well I’ve got the 80s Citadel 4th & 5th Doctor's finished, so that's all of them completed.

There's four of the companions to complete, then some UNIT troops for the good guys.

And a picture of all Five Doctor's

1980’s Citadel Miniatures, The Master painted

 Finished The Master from the 80's Doctor Who Range

I'm quite pleased with how he turned out

1980’s Citadel Miniatures Doctor Who - Painted Plastic Daleks

 Finally got round to painting some of the plastic Daleks that I'd managed to pick up way back in 2024 & had built! The Aircav Saga: Reinforcements Have Arrived

Just did a quick dark grey paint job on them & painted the bases more like the ones that I'm doing for the Doctors & Companions.

I also tweaked the bases of the existing Daleks to blend in better. I did notice that the plastic ones are a bit taller than the metal ones

1980’s Citadel Miniatures Doctor Who, Painted versions of The First & Second Doctors

 I thought that I would paint some more of the old Citadel Doctor Who line, as I was on a bit of a roll & the 1st & 2nd Doctors were already cleaned up & undercoated. 

I’ve actually tried to paint them in screen accurate colours, but it seems a little vague on the clothing colours, anywhere from yellow to grey for the trousers of the 1st Doctor, so I sort of went in between, still not sure if I should’ve painted the 2nd Doctors shirt pale blue! Anyway here’s the figures

And here's a picture with the 3rd Doctor

Pub Roof Finished

 I've managed to motivate myself to finish the pub roof & parapet wall.

I also tried to make the flat roof & dormer cheeks look like they are leaded by adding 

ridges to the edges of strips of paper to look like the joints in rolls of lead.

Just Some Chimney Pots to add, fling some paint at it & come up with a name

1980’s Citadel Miniatures Doctor Who, painted companions Sarah Jane Smith & K9, plus a Harlequin/Black Tree 4th Doctor

 Finally got round to painting some old Citadel Miniatures Sarah Jane & K9 & a Black Tree/Harlequin 4th Doctor (even though I know I should be finishing the Pub!)

I haven’t painted this version of the 4th Doctor in any particular costume, I just went with something that feels right 😁

Quick update on the Pub

 I’ve got the pub put together & the roof on.

Dormer windows are glued on & just the roof tiles to do now 😔

Also experimented with  creating a frosted glass window

Pub for the Harbour

 

I've decided that the harbour village that I've slowly been building needs a pub to fill the empty space in the bottom left corner of the above picture.

This is the rough design that I've come up with (drawn the wrong hand though 🙄😂)

The next step was to design the windows & facade for the pub. I did these as a standard pattern for windows & doors, which meant that I could remove the side columns as necessary. 

I contacted ks_creation on eBay (who I get the windows from for the other buildings) & asked if they could make them to my design & luckily for me they said yes.

This is the front 3 sections built & ready to add Cills & Headers & be rendered, I've added another door from the original design & the roof will be different as well.

FIRE UP THE QUATTRO

 Got an Audi Quattro From Kore Aeronautics Via Chris at Sally 4th.

Its a 3d resin print, so I gave it a wash & a quick rub down all over 😏 before applying any paint.

Then just painted it red!

The Number plate is a bit of plastic with a paper printed number plate glued on