Make do and Paint

well another week and some more stuff painted,

well decided to make one Lieutenant Surgeon Harry Sullivan or Harry because i have 2 Sarah s Death to the Daleks and Pyramids of mars  a Ace from Remembrance  so three girls and in need of something different ,aint gona happen through CO ,so i took one Auton and did this

 

So one Harry Sullivan for Revenge of the Cybermen display made a start on  a Yo Yo and time ring to finish pictures forthcoming

Next item ,you know partworks magazines with a gift ?,there is a dr who figurine collection one 90 mm 3.5 inches so the size of the new Doctor Who line of figures ,the standard is appalling chimps paint them some have broken appendages so no mail order then i want to choose,  but had to have Tom 4th Dr and especially as Mag covered Pyramids of mars

 

So same company do the rather gorgeous Emperor model from new series which would be a awesome shelf filler BUT its £45 heck the new series TARDIS is £16 make a 80s variant and id be putting it on a xmas list to santa as it is erm no your ok

obligatory repaint here (thankfully i am used to painting 28mm minis) mine had brown tears so repainted the head ,hair and re did the shirt adding more white and cleaned up the lines and detail, this i think is brilliant 3 and half  inch fun a mini me Tom ,pose superb it got him perfectly bit gangly brooding and also the costume spot on the  mag surprisingly was fun and not bad just one or two minor errors i know hard to reference but screen grabs people ? ,that is the costume from lot later season 15 not 13 Pyramids Time different hat for a start and he didn’t have tweed check trouser there’s tweed wool and check for season 16 to 17 Cosplay is massive so get it right ,and £6 pound instead of usual £10 for these things my superheros are half the size and more money ,i had to have it, within budget ,and looks good with my DVDs ,cant help but wonder with there sloppy paintwork what old 6 will turn out like

As a dear old friend said there to small to display,my friend you just hit nail firmly squarely on the head for a whole other reason this is a mini statue fine its fun but as a line of ACTION figures to a collector waste of scale as toys great think ill get long coat matt to go with

 

Vector Tracing

Well you know the one as a designer

As designers and project managers,tasked with chasing down assets to include in printed work. When we need a logo, we often hear, ‘Can’t you just pull it off the web site’? Unfortunately, a web site graphic is a fraction of the resolution needed for print.so that means its going to pixelate for fun and usually you will get something that looks like its on teletext or done in 8 bit graphics not good

But now, there’s a new option: http://vectormagic.com

It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty darn hot.Not like doing live trace well bit like that in illustrator but

There are issues that would need to be cleaned up in a vector drawing program, and the type still needs to be identified and re-set. Still, it would save a lot of time.
Put with a font site and look it up like  WhatTheFont  and you’ve got a successfully traced logo in half the time or less that it would usually take.
Very Handy and something i shall play with more

Now bookmarking…

 

Talking about Regeneration

Well id like to just sort out the Doctor and his 12 lives as talking to a mate i suddenly feel like a kid at school flicking through books and Doctor Who Mags to organize what gos where or is what

• 1 Bill Hartnell
• 2 Pat Troughton
• 3 Jon Pertwee
• 4 Tom Baker
• 5 Peter Davison
• 6 Collin Baker
• 7 Sylv McCoy
• 8 Paul McGann

9 now this gets messy and all change, apparently there is a unknown Doctor that fought in the time war so “War Other Dr” ,
9 John Hurt

• 10 Chris Ecclestone
• 11 David Tennant,

Tennants gets messy and what id like to break down

He got hit  put the energy into his hand that had been cut off ,that to me aint a regeneration nothing changed just the “New firework show” then Donna made it turn into a dr clone that was essentially human could age and die so left as rose play thing sex toy ,IF thats a regeneration  so is Dona then right ?……wrong for me not counting it

then we are left with two

• 12 Matt Smith
• 13 Peter Capaldi

I see the list as that regenerate 12 times 13 lives and then it really is the end,unless you can source enough energy like a planet and go body snatching ala the Master or get as Matt Did some pixi dust ,anyone else find that underwhelming see this is the new series bull were putting up with so i own all 13

Now next blog which is related

This is one nice figure £15 yes Fifteen like Ace Leela and other single packs ok even though e bay its selling for 30 some more ,go figure

5oth anniversary,for that one episode here is John Hurt as the “Warrior” Ecclestone as warrior i get well ard oop Northerner got it but as everyone knew would tell BBC to stick it ( during his time he didnt like the way things were run) ,so what can you do we did want the three new drs (as theres no who before honest) so we get Joh Hurt the doddering old man ermmmmmmmm no warrior but ok  but as we say in Manchester “Roll with it” ,he had the gravity for it for sure but with leather jacket it was a watered down version really

As for the figure maybe been collecting these to long but can se on it where money was spent and saved elsewhere, the jacket is nicely beat up and weathered i dont remember this much silver on the bandolier but it is nice now the sculpt is spot on and even the gators are really nice with some buttons fastened others not but his face is in need of a wash to bring out the wrinkles the mask for the hair paint does leave a grey line on the forehead a easy fix otherwise a very nice figure not my favorite CO have done but up there ,just hope this short hair mcgann figure can go on the mcgann body i have

Any way a nice 50th anniversary piece only one i own and will own ,i think ,so do not want to open?, it its nothing to do with selling in future i didn’t get into this collecting for a pay check ,may as well put money in the bank instead, but sometimes rarely the old stuff can get some funds if its in trend. But looks lovely, packet clear and the moment box pic on the back is translucent shines light through nicely , looks nice and looks fine in packet and is silver (gold surely?) txts and logo’s
Now sell it ? Gamble ?, for double the money then buy two? well im going to have to buy two so that’s one route or just keep the packet? but then don’t have it in packet to enjoy decisions decisions

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

EDIT

finished my Day of the Doctor DVD cover so thought as it is appropriate would put it here

all don by me and the Dalek took a good Day all i had was the prop and then had to make the explosion happy how this turned out ,again in the old Target style of old

Kate Omara

Sad news today kate omara has died at the age of 74,she was a good actress i remember from Hammer films The Vampire Lovers and The Horror of Frankenstein,but i remember know her from the role of The Rani, the wicked Time Lady, in Doctor Who in 1985, an amoral character a scientist with no scruples and no real need for power for powers sake evil but brilliant,she was a scientist and i would love to see her return

O’Mara passed away on March 30th in a nursing home in Sussex it was confirmed by her agent

hope CO do the figure now she was a great part for such a short period and fondly remembered