Building the Doctor
Friday, March 21st, 2008 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanAs I anticipated, the painting and building of the Doctor figure for my "Welcome Aboard" TARDIS kit is proving a little trickier than the TARDIS, which provided its own series of challenges.
Basically, while the pieces are crisply sculpted and moulded, they are small and very detailed. When you have fingers like bananas, this adds to the fun and inventive use of language. It is fiddly, painstaking work. Here is a picture of the torso assembly prior to its final paint - I have to wait now until the Milliput has set where I have had to fill the gap on the jacket collar. Below the cut I have stuck a number of pictures showing in rather blurry fashion (I had difficulty finding a focus with the camera), the development of the paintwork on the Doctor's head. You can get a sense of scale from my fingers.
A view of some of the various pieces that need to be assembles to build the Doctor and Martha, still on their sprue. The Doctor's head is just visible in the middle, with its initial flesh tone painted on.
A sadly blurry shot of the Doctor's head with detailed paintwork largely complete, but hair unpainted.
Torso assembly including initial paint work. There are seven separate parts in the assembly. The collar has yet to be fixed with Milliput.
Alternate view of same.
Basically, while the pieces are crisply sculpted and moulded, they are small and very detailed. When you have fingers like bananas, this adds to the fun and inventive use of language. It is fiddly, painstaking work. Here is a picture of the torso assembly prior to its final paint - I have to wait now until the Milliput has set where I have had to fill the gap on the jacket collar. Below the cut I have stuck a number of pictures showing in rather blurry fashion (I had difficulty finding a focus with the camera), the development of the paintwork on the Doctor's head. You can get a sense of scale from my fingers.
A view of some of the various pieces that need to be assembles to build the Doctor and Martha, still on their sprue. The Doctor's head is just visible in the middle, with its initial flesh tone painted on.
A sadly blurry shot of the Doctor's head with detailed paintwork largely complete, but hair unpainted.
Torso assembly including initial paint work. There are seven separate parts in the assembly. The collar has yet to be fixed with Milliput.
Alternate view of same.