Doctor Who Miniatures Game - Zarbi

 

Two quick posts today to round out the year. I needed some large ants for my next home-grown Fallout d20 game and decided to use some Zarbi that I had laying around in my unpainted metal pile. These are from Black Tree Design miniatures. Most of the pictures I've seen have them as completely black in colour, which I wasn't happy with. So, I went with the colour scheme here.

Raston Warrior Robots

These come from Black Tree Design Miniatures.

Simple and sweet. Just a heavy dry brush of Gun Metal over a Chaos Black base. The heads are done with Silver. Easy! I did bend the arm of one of them to differentiate between the miniatures so that it looks like its pointing its hand weapon.

Letting Zygons be Zygons

 So lets discuss Zygons, shall we?

The dudes (? you can never tell with Zygons!) on the left are from Black Tree Design Miniatures, the ones of the right are from Warlord Games, Exterminate line of miniatures.

Perusing the interwebs for a decent colour image of the Zygons shattered my illusions from childhood (Terror of the Zygons! Soooo goood!) that they were orange in colour.

Seems they are more of a Rakath Flesh tone with more red highlights than orange. So I base coated these in Chaos Black. Wet brushed them Rakath Flesh. Inked them in Reikland Flesh Shade, and then finally gave them a drybrush of red (can't remember what type of red sorry).

These lads are a little too sunburnt though...

I expected the Warlord Games miniature to be larger than the Black Tree miniature, but this was not the case. So I ended up basing the Warlord miniature on a standard 25mm round base to bring them to the same height as the Black Tree miniatures.

Beach bums!

Still think they should be orange!

Research Daleks

Research (i.e. Engineer) Daleks

I had it in my head that I wanted to make a specific group of Daleks that were dedicated to scientific research. These Daleks would need a different colour scheme to my other Daleks and so I decided to go with white in mimicry of them wearing white lab coats.

These are the Engineering Daleks from Black Tree Miniatures line of Classic Doctor Who.

I used Citadel White to paint them. Unfortunately I don't think that their white paint is the best as you can see from the photo's. Their "white" lab coat ends up looking the same tone as my old lab coat.

Mind you, my white paint tin may be getting a little old. So I will have to try buying a new one and give these fella's a little touch up. Overall, I think the paint scheme works OK and they are easily recognized from the other Daleks on the table. Now, on to the next project!

Ichtar and Scibus

To remind us of how good Doctor Who once was before the atrocity that happened over the last couple of years, I have been painting up some of my Black Tree Design classic Doctor Who minis.

So here are Ichtar and Scibus, the Silurian's from the Fifth Doctor's time on screen.

Sentry Androids

 Sentry Androids now painted.

These guys are 28mm sentry androids from Black Tree Miniatures. They are known as Sharez Jek Androids from their classic Doctor Who range.

I've painted up twelve of the blighters, all the same paint scheme. These will join my Blakes 7 Federation Security Troops for the Doctor Who Miniatures Game and 7TV games.

The Emperor Dalek is finally painted!

So way back in April 2019 I posted about how I made an Emperor Dalek from Terry Nations 1978 Dalek Annual. This Christmas I decided to finally paint the blighter!

Took long enough but its finally done.

Though never making it to screen, this blighter is regarded as part of cannon given that it appeared in a Dalek annual.

And so will appear in a Doctor Who Miniatures Game somewhere down the road.

Given the atrocity that is showing on the BBC these days I thought I would remind you, dear reader, of the proud, long, and true history of real Doctor Who.

Doctor Who Robot Mummies

 

These dudes are Robot Mummies from Black Tree Design Miniatures Doctor Who range.

I'll be using them for role playing game where the players uncover an ancient tomb.

The small pyramid on their back is what powers and guides these drones. Targeting this will disable to drone. The players will need to work this out the hard way or find themselves fighting an enemy that appears to have no weaknesses.

Now, on to the next project 😊