I, Morbius

I, Morbius

Mentioned in an earlier post was the project by blogger Danny from his Hand Of Junk blog where using the Police Box model and some figures from Black Cat Bases and Battleforge to make a diorama of Doctor Who and the evil Timelord Morbius!

"I, Morbius, who once led the High Council of the Time Lords, reduced to this - to the condition where I envy a vegetable."

It's from one of my favourite Classic Who serials The Brain of Morbius. I recommend getting the DVD and it's a must watch before watching the excellent Night of the Doctor!

See the diorama come together with this great blog post here -
http://handofjunk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/brain-of-morbius-diorama.html

Nissen Hut

David has sent me some photos of a HO/OO Gauge Nissen Hut he's painted for his model train layout.

Also, Doctor Who will be making an appearance on the layout with one of the HO/OO gauge Police Boxes I make and you can see in the picture below, that Harry Potter and Ron (in that funky blue car) will be making an appearance too!

Doctor Behind Glass

The Doctor also pops up in this rather lovely looking scene from Stefan. He's placed the TARDIS into a rather peaceful scene as an ornament, and also painted up some of the other larger scale Police Boxes. 

You can see some of Stefans work in progress pictures and a Tenth Doctor figure below.

Resellers

Just a little news that both Black Pyramid Gaming and Decors Miniatures join Grekwood Miniatures as some Yeoman Model resellers! Woo Hoo! Both Black Pyramid and Grekwood travel to model shows and make some terrific products. Please check out their websites!

Black Pyramid Gaming

Grekwood Miniatures

Decors Miniatures

Tweedy

Another photo that was sent to me was the 28mm scale Police Box I make expertly painted from a modeller. He told me that he's gone for the Newbury / Tom Baker colours. the figure for scale is 'Tweedy' from Crooked Dice.

Swiss Trains

If you want to see some great model work of trains and very realistic and detailed layouts, check out this train model site with some fantastic work and lovely photos from Switzerland www.modellkunst.ch

Flames of the Red Scull

Gwen from http://www.frgn.proboards.com/ has done a great job of combining the WWII game Flames of War and the WWII Marvel Superhero of Captain America! But no hero can be without a villain, so a Red Scull Army has also been made! Check out the amazing photos below and the forum for more excellent work from Gwen who's Star Wars Stormtrooper army look great too! 

 

Back Toy the Future

Diorama update

You may remember from a previous blog about a Doctor Who themed scene being built with one of my 28mm scale Police Boxes. Well, we have an update from Roger with new photos of the diorama.

If you like this then please also check out his Victorian diorama in previous posts.

Links

HO scale model train fans may want to check out this site. It has quite a large collection of useful images for reference for your own layouts!

http://www.fuzzyworld3.com/modelrr.html

Wargamers might want to check out this site which offers a war terrain system and painting service.

uttt.com.au

Back Toy the Future

I was sent some photos from Felix of a small police box model painted up with a converted hover car like from Back to the Future! Check out the images below. Great stuff!

If you are a fan of Back to the Future, you may want to see a small YouTube video I made with a friend a while back...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifc13_RjbYA

Pub Kit and Saucy Jack

New Release!

You may have seen on my eBay page a new item, a Victorian Pub Kit. 

The 28mm scale street furniture kit contains 3 barrels, a sandwich board in 2 parts, Pub sign to hang on a wall, fire hydrant, 4 road drains and a Pub cellar doors. It can be found on eBay here!

Painted Items

These Police Boxes I sell have been painted by Stefan and will be used for an ornaments to put on a shelf. They are unfinished but will look great I'm sure :)

If you look on my previous post, you'd see a Victorian Diorama made by Roger that needed some extra pieces and a lick paint - well I have been emailed an update and here it is!

Can you spot Saucy Jack being chased by the police?

An update to his Doctor Who diorama is on the way!

Geeky Jewellery

In a previous post I mentioned a Steampunk necklace made by http://amonseuldesir.net that features a Police Box. Well now they are back but with earrings too!

The set is available to buy at this link. http://amonseuldesir.net/Parures.php?id=3152

Painting Inspiration

If you are looking for some painting inspiration and just some lovely painted miniatures check out Flare Miniatures at https://www.facebook.com/flareminiaturepainting?fref=ts

I particularly like the colourful Daleks

Happy New Year Everyone!

Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to the first post of 2014! This blog is a catch up of some fantastic work people have been doing mixed with a little news of upcoming events.

A Christmassy Who

This is a photo of an excellent Christmassy Bauble present made by a gifted lady using a HO/OO scale Police box with a big helping of some artistic talent and skill. I'm also happy to say that the Whovian who received this gift was delighted with it :)

Keeping with Doctor Who, this is a picture of an expertly painted Doctor and K-9 standing outside a half materialised TARDIS. Great Stuff! If you like this painting work (and why wouldn't you?!) then check out his blog http://talesfromthemaelstrom.blogspot.co.uk/ all about old school sci fi and fantasy wargaming!

Well I'll be Blogged! 

You may have seen on my Twitter or Facebook pages, but I'm happy to say that some of my Victorian miniatures have been written about in a very complimentary blog! Read the post by Gavin here! http://ggreig.livejournal.com/132526.html

Yeoman Models and the First Crusade!

The Penarth Crusade model show is happening on Saturday the 25th January and Grekwood miniatures will be there selling some of my items! Very exciting! If you can, get along to the show - go! It'll be great!

To the slotties! 

This combination HO train track and slot car road is new to me but here it is all the way from New York. It's made by Scott and is awaiting some HO miniatures to place on the layout.

Roger is bringing a little bit of Victorian London to the USA in his Sherlock Holmes diorama. He's putting together and painting some 28mm Victorian items for his layout on top, and there is a Primeval layout underneath!

And also another UK character is being honoured in this tableau! If you look on the right you can see The Doctor by a Police Box. Lots of people awaiting a lick of paint as you can see but it'll look terrific once finished I'm sure! 

Blog Fan

If you are a fan of bogs about miniatures, then I can recommend  http://handofjunk.blogspot.co.uk/ It's mainly about Warhammer 40K but he's branching out. Check it out!

I can also recommend http://www.blackpyramid.co.uk/ if you are looking for a variety of figures from Spartan, Steam Punk and Weird World War II! I have a Steam Lancer from them and it looks great! I can't wait to paint it and when I do - I will of course post it on the blog!

Hot and Cold miniatures

Hello everybody,
This is just a little update of some new models for I have for sale and some great model work that people have been doing!

Lets build a snowman!

As it's winter and Christmas is on the way, I made a little 28mm scale Snowman miniature!

The little cold chap is available from eBay here-
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121223406142?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

He comes as a body, textured base and two metal arms.

My name is Ozymandias!

From slightly warmer climes we have Ozymandias (also known as Ramesses II or Younger Memnon) statue ruin at 28mm scale. and also a 28mm scale Easter Island head!

Ozymandias is a solid hand cast resin miniature of the famous Younger Memnon (Ramesses II) statue as seen in the British Museum and made famous by Shelley's poem Ozymandias.

The statue is depicted half buried in the sand awaiting excavation. In later life the real statue had a small hole made in its chest but this model is made with out the hole. You can add it if you wish! The Hieroglyphics on the back of the statue are accurate.

The Easter Island head or Moai is also hand cast solid resin and its size is based on a typical Easter Island head. It's quite big!

I'm in the middle of painting both at the moment and photos of them should be on the blog in the following weeks.

Clever Boy!

Mike from The States has painted up one of the HO scale Police boxes for his new Train Layout and you can see more photos and follow his progress as he builds and develops his layout on his great Facebook page www.facebook.com/CentervilleHO

On the subject of Police Boxes, the new Half blue half transparent Police Boxes at 28mm scale (a companion piece to the solid blue Police Boxes) keep selling out but we should have some more in by the end of the week - so if you do want one, keep your eyes peeled on eBay tomorrow/Friday morning.

We are also making some fully transparent Police Boxes too and they should be on eBay at the same time.

Victorian Post Boxes and Demon Summoning Circles

Hello,

Bit of an eclectic mix this post with Victorian Post Boxes and Demon summoning circles! 

Post Boxes

I've finally had a bit of time off to do a little painting and thought I'd try and paint the newest items I've made, Victorian Post Boxes. Quite a few people have asked for me to make Victorian Post boxes and so I decided to make not one - but three different types. An early, mid and late Victorian. You can read about them here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillar_box

I'm rather happy with the results of these miniatures and managed to get some nice detail on the 28mm scale boxes. I think the Mid or 'Penfold' box is probably my favourite. I reckon that most people will imagine that post box if they think of Victorian pillar boxes. I'm rather happy that you can see and paint the words 'Post Office' on the side of the box.

The Early Grecian Column style post box looks so odd to modern eyes. It even has a vertical slot for the letters! It's also very small but I guess there was far less post back then.

The later box has a VR emblem on the front that I've painted in gold. It's kind of crazy to think that this late post box design has changed very little in all these years.

To paint the boxes first by spraying them with a black undercoat then a dark red. I then gave it a darker red wash before dry brushing it with a rich bright red. Then I painted the black bases, white for the 'collection plate' and gold for the detail. I used the dark red again for painting the little details like the locks and hinges. A very watery black wash was used on the 'collection plate' white to finish off. 

The unpainted post boxes are available to buy on my ebay page.

Early - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121201582902?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Mid - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121201586355?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Late - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121201588492?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Summoning Circle

A model I made a while ago was the medium sized Demon Summoning Circle but I haven't managed to get around to painting it until now. You can see my painted Large summoning circle on this previous posts on the blog.

To paint this one I started with a black undercoat and dry brushed a few dark greys getting lighter and lighter. A liberal amount of brown wash was used to show all the rough detail on the sides. the stonework only really comes to life when a final light grey drybrush was used to bring out the detail of the stonework. I decided to paint the pentagram to try and make it look like lava. I'm not sure if I succeeded but what I did was to paint the lines with a dark red, then a lighter red. A red wash was used before then painting long splotches of orange, then in the splotches I painted yellow, then in the yellow I painted tiny bits of white. I then painted a gloss vanish over it to make it look a bit shiny. Silver was used on the pentangle and the demonic glyphs around the sides. the Glyphs do mean something by the way!

I added a few Lovecraftian monsters I painted a couple of years ago to this picture to help with the atmosphere, or should I say atmos-fear! 

 

This model is available to buy here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111207157764?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Run Doctor, run!

Wayne from http://weirdwars.pbworks.com bought one of my Police Boxes and added the Doctor and Companion to a scene. As you can see he's just started the mini diorama but it's already looking quite promising! I would also suggest if you like Weird WWII sci fi stuff to check out his blog. It's crammed full of crazy diesel punk war vehicles. Tank Tripods and British UFO's! All expertly built and painted. Check it out!