Doctor Who 1:6 big prop commission thread

[William Shatners Toupee]

Hi,
I'm William Shatner's Toupee. You may know me as the organizer from such Ada Chan 1:6 head group commissions as Ghostbusters, Supernatural, Aliens, Phantasm, Bea Arthur: the woman- the legend, and of course, Doctor Who.

I love Doctor Who. Getting 1:6 heads rock, but why stop there, dammit? Let's try for a "prop" or something ususually sized.

It will be a ways off. We'd need to figure out who we could get to do it, maybe Neil after the Cybermen kits if he's game, but I love hearing what everybody thinks, so, for a BIG Who project, if it could be done
smallest to largest, what would we be interested in (they would be pricey):

1) 1:6 K-9 (light-up eye?)
2) 1:6 new series Davros Kit (chair, head, claw hand)
3) 1:6 classic series Dalek
4) 1:6 resin classic series Console Room kit, two parts- Tardis console, then part two would just be the walls with roundells you could connect with video screen and columns, and doors like a set?

Technically we could probabaly commission a whole Tardis, but personally, I dunno, it gets boring after a while always needing a Tardis for every range. I myself would prefer going after characters like the first three suggested.

Thoughts?

 

[morethanatimelord]

i can see a tardis console room being very,very pricey made out of resin....its a lot cheaper to make one out of foamcore and believe me you can get better results! sean huxter (i think thats his name) proved this in his photo stories i then followed his intructions and built a tardis console out of foamcore and it took me about a month. iv added working lights etc to it too.

i love the idea of a 1:6 scale davros though

 

[bcm77]

Some other possible ideas,

K1 Robot from "Robot"
( Would likely be very expensive but doable as each bit could be scaled up from the forthcoming Character Options 5" scale Build A Figure )

Davros from "Genesis Of The Daleks"

Wirrn from "The Ark in Space"

Some sort of space station corridor backdrop like the one used in "The Ark In Space" and "Revenge Of The Cybermen"

( The following aren't big but cost wise shouldn't be too pricey )

The "Hand Of Fear"
4th Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver
UNIT Communicator
The Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator
The Key To Time

Of the ones WST listed I'd be most intrested in K9 and the Tardis Console Room providing it was the one used during the 4th Doctor's era.

 

[morethanatimelord]

both the sonic screwdriver and the masters tissue compression elminator are very easy to make out of K&S ALU tubing. i made a TCE out of ALU tubing and then fitted an LED on the end so it could light up . the sonic screwdriver is a little more tricky as you need different widths so each tube fits into each other, getting a good even cut is difficult and requires a steady hand. ive made both the 3rd and 4th doctors sonics before my 1:6 scale doctor who figures

 

[Ironman1188]

Hmmmm, interesting.....

 

[2000man]

I would probably be up for a K-9 or a Dalek.

 

[bcm77]

both the sonic screwdriver and the masters tissue compression elminator are very easy to make out of K&S ALU tubing. i made a TCE out of ALU tubing and then fitted an LED on the end so it could light up . the sonic screwdriver is a little more tricky as you need different widths so each tube fits into each other, getting a good even cut is difficult and requires a steady hand. ive made both the 3rd and 4th doctors sonics before my 1:6 scale doctor who figures

Intresting info,I'll perhaps look into doing this.
I've had a few more ideas for "big stuff",

The Face Of Boe with jar
Dalek Emperor
Classic Sontaran kit ( head,helmet,hands,armor pieces and weapon )

 

[vikkitx]

I'm interested in almost everything that's been mentioned, but if wishes were horses, well, you know... So, I'll try to prioritize.

I really most definitely want a classic Sontaran kit.
I'm also interested in K-9. (Could this be re-sized from one of the existing CO toys?)

I'm also interested in, but can wait for:
1:6 scale Daleks would be cool
Davros
TARDIS consoles (because my previous foam core attempts were disasters. I'd love to make my own, but such tips and tricks belong in another thread).
Generic space station corridors (but I probably can make some using foam core and styrofoam based on tutorials I've seen on the web.)

Some of the suggested props might be easier (and cheaper) to make ourselves.

As soon as the Hand of Fear was mentioned, I realized I could make one myself using an X-acto blade to cut off some poor unfortunate donor figure's hand. Then I could repaint the hand and glue beads or other shiny gee-gaws from the craft store to the hand.

I'm not the handiest person, but I still managed to assemble a rather nice sonic screwdriver using Sean Huxter's How To Make a Sonic Screwdriver Instructions. The metal tubing and other supplies were very cheap, so even if it hadn't worked, I wouldn't have been put out much.

Here's a pic of the sonic screwdriver I made by following Sean Huxter's instructions.

I'll eventually sew a new improved version of this 8th Doctor outfit. Someday...

Does anybody have some good close-up images of the TCE? I still have plenty of tubing left over from making the sonic screwdriver, and would like to try making my own TCE too.

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

I've had a few more ideas for "big stuff",

The Face Of Boe with jar
Dalek Emperor
Classic Sontaran kit ( head,helmet,hands,armor pieces and weapon )

Great ideas there too, Brendan!

I used to make lots of monster customs for the Denys Fisher range, had them on my Megodoctorwho website for years. I like making monster customs.
I thought some of my more successful Denys Fisher customs were my Ice Warrior and my Sontaran, so I am re-making them and a Sea Devil for myself and Vikki now in 1:6th.

Those Denys Fisher pics are about 6 years old, and I'm a bit better now. Those were all sculpey and these will be casted and done right. Most of these will made as straight, fully finished custom figures.

The Sontaran parts I could try and sell as a kit one done, but I thought that was kind of pointless without his armored suit for people to get.

The one thing I really can't do for whatever reason is tech/mechanical stuff (particularly with foamboard). To be blunt and nerdy, I have negative modifiers added onto any tech creation roll I make! which is the main reason I suggested a resin Console (laugh). But even though I mentioned it, I honestly would rather have characters than a console anyways.

 

[morethanatimelord]

I'm interested in almost everything that's been mentioned, but if wishes were horses, well, you know... So, I'll try to prioritize.

I really most definitely want a classic Sontaran kit.
I'm also interested in K-9. (Could this be re-sized from one of the existing CO toys?)

I'm also interested in, but can wait for:
1:6 scale Daleks would be cool
Davros
TARDIS consoles (because my previous foam core attempts were disasters. I'd love to make my own, but such tips and tricks belong in another thread).
Generic space station corridors (but I probably can make some using foam core and styrofoam based on tutorials I've seen on the web.)

Some of the suggested props might be easier (and cheaper) to make ourselves.

As soon as the Hand of Fear was mentioned, I realized I could make one myself using an X-acto blade to cut off some poor unfortunate donor figure's hand. Then I could repaint the hand and glue beads or other shiny gee-gaws from the craft store to the hand.

I'm not the handiest person, but I still managed to assemble a rather nice sonic screwdriver using Sean Huxter's How To Make a Sonic Screwdriver Instructions. The metal tubing and other supplies were very cheap, so even if it hadn't worked, I wouldn't have been put out much.

Here's a pic of the sonic screwdriver I made by following Sean Huxter's instructions.

I'll eventually sew a new improved version of this 8th Doctor outfit. Someday...

Does anybody have some good close-up images of the TCE? I still have plenty of tubing left over from making the sonic screwdriver, and would like to try making my own TCE too.

iv made 1 sucessful tardis console vikki check my thread to have a look, if you wanted one making i could have another go.

the masters TCE changed manytimes, in the deadly assassin it looked like some kind of pistol. in delgados era it looked abit like a sontarans weapon and then in the ainley era it looked abit like a naughty toy you would buy in seedy shops

my TCE has elements of the classic ones with the added bonus of being able to light up.

basically its just a piece of ALU k&s tubing painted black with an LED fitted on the end with the wire running up the sleeve to a battery on the back. i could have made the TCE look more detailed but the actual prop never was really. ainleys TCE was basically a black shaft with a ball at one end that opened up and a button at the back...a good shot of it can be seen in the five doctors near the end when the brig punches the master...

i followed sean huxters sonic screwdriver recipe too its great like i said, i made both the 3rd and 4th doctors sonics using his guide

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

Re-sizing is an interesting question and one, if possible, that would work great on both a K-9 and Dalek.

I know a little of the process involved, and as they say, a little knowledge is dangerous, so I may be wrong.

Toy companies can up or reduce the scale on toys using a computer, and I think the process is called "panographing"? After the computer then makes the molds. The process is expensive (for a company).

Doll heads can be made larger or smaller with chemicals from a link I don't have right now, then you rush and mold it when it gets to the size you want, BUT, and I may be wrong here too, I thought they had to be vinyl/rubber for the process to work (cast the head as rubber, enlarge it, cast that at proper size, make copies). Not sure if that would work on something like K-9 or a Dalek.

Hopefully someone reading this thread will have more insight into possabilities of that.

Brendan, for a K-1 Robot, Sevans (I think) made a 1:4 Giant Robot at one point (and since he grew you can't say he's the wrong size!). Just something for you to look into!

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

Does anybody have some good close-up images of the TCE? I still have plenty of tubing left over from making the sonic screwdriver, and would like to try making my own TCE too.

https://flickr.com/photos/13450434@N05/tags/tce/

 

[Captain Britain]

How about making the aging machine from City of Death?

 

[bcm77]

How about making the aging machine from City of Death?

Cool idea,and 1/6 sculpts of Count Scarlioni and his alter ego Scaroth would go very nicely with such a piece.
WST,
Do you have any links to pics of the 1/4 scale K1 Robot?

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

Do you have any links to pics of the 1/4 scale K1 Robot?

Hi Brendan,
I've always had problems finding pics of that, though I've seen it at conventions. You should ask on OG and I bet you'll get 20 different pics sent to you.

I'm been planning on making Vikki a severed Eldrad hand to go along with the Eldrad custom I am making for her. I think I have an extra hand around here of the same type I'm using. If so, I can make one for you too.

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

Some other possible ideas,

Some sort of space station corridor backdrop like the one used in "The Ark In Space" and "Revenge Of The Cybermen"

Generic space station corridors (but I probably can make some using foam core and styrofoam based on tutorials I've seen on the web.)

Some of the suggested props might be easier (and cheaper) to make ourselves.

This thread is going all over the place and I love it!

SETS and BACKGROUNDS
I've been obsessed with making realistc diorama environments for my figures for a long time now, but like I've mentioned, I just have negative karma thrown on me when I try to create anything technical looking... and foamboard is a fiend from hell! Oh the pain of trying to cut a straight line and making things even! It shouldn't be hard but it is. Curses!

Here's a three fold answer of things I know:

Backgrounds:

Example:

If you can find any large picture of a hollywood movie/tv show set or any other background you'd like to use for a diorama, it can gets pricey. A picture enlarged and printed onto a giant pice of canvas foamboard costs $150.

Blowing a pic up to the largest size available (24"x36") and getting it printed on regular photo paper costs about $50.

You can also make good backgrounds in photoshop, but I've had issues where I've made backgrounds that were supposed to be the right size, but I didn't have a high enough resolution or something to actually make them that large, so I got boned (and confused) on that. I'm self taught, so I'm just good at making the pictures side of it, not the tech end of it.

I am in the middle of making a mall diorama this way for a Supernatural tv show/Dawn of the Dead diorama. It is nearly finished, I just need to add shadows and tweak the fore-ground floor (which will be obscured anyways).

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

THE FOAM-BOARD DIORAMA

Vikki, I would LOVE to see those online space station tutorials if you can still find them.

I am nearly finished making level one of a sci-fi foamboard space station project I have going on (of 4 levels) made for Aliens and Doctor Who.

while this was difficult for me to do, it was still less stressful than trying to to do a Tardis Console, which NEEDS to look a certain way.

Anyways, while it is still not done (I need to put in hanging hoses, pipes, and tubing on the floor), here is the progression. The theme was that an archeologists dig had excavated an ancient alien base filled with thousands of deadly creatures, many long since extinct, found in suspended animation and now the military have some on a space station for study.

Here it is when it still was bare-bones, no decal work to dress it up yet to give it atmosphere yet.

Here it is with some photoshopped decal accents. This is all trial and error. I really wanted an image beyond the doorway to open the base up, but light glares off it giving the illusion away. Because of this I don't know if printed back grounds are a great idea.

Also, cardboard as monitors looks like ass!

LED lights are amazing. Lighting is the key to any movies atmosphere, and with LEDs we can create our own, even if it's just lighting up a shelf.

Here are lighting test photos of face hugger chambers I made, and some other lighting tests. I decided I needed to add a few more, and more decals (but I need to figure out of what).

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The black grid floor is actually what is used in the bottom of aquariums to sift gravel, and can be found at most pet shops or dept stores.

Level 2 is going to be a lab where things have gone awry. There will be 2 scientists ripped apart and a glass chanber that has it's glass broke, with a hero discovering the murder scene.

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

THE MANUFACTURED DIORAMA

See, this all ties in after all!
I came up with an idea a few years ago to get sci-fi space station dioramas made as components so you could make whatever you wanted, and all the parts connected.

There would be your basic detailed steel wall segments to make your set as large or as small as you wanted depending on your shelf space, as well as linking ceiling and floor tile plates.

A massive doorway could be linked to be part of the wall, or put sideways like it blocked part of their corridor. It would have a hand operated sliding door and a removable lock panel for hot wiring. It could be sold pristine or laser scorched and grimy, with holes.

Another set would be a security/control room with lots of monitors for you to fill in yourself with photoshop, with light up "security alert" panels and a yellow lighted warning siren.

Good times!

If we made something like this, there would be a market for it beyond just us.

It is indeed a big prop. And cool, but with most peoples monet being limited, I think sets are easier to make out of foamboard and would personally prefer to focus on characters.

Small props we have enough talent among us we can probably sort out among ourselves. Bigger props we will need to find the right people, particularly if we need to figure out if scaling something like a K-9 to 1:6 size is possible.

 

[bcm77]

Hi Brendan,
I've always had problems finding pics of that, though I've seen it at conventions. You should ask on OG and I bet you'll get 20 different pics sent to you.

I'm been planning on making Vikki a severed Eldrad hand to go along with the Eldrad custom I am making for her. I think I have an extra hand around here of the same type I'm using. If so, I can make one for you too.

Thanks for the info about the K1 pics,and that's very kind of you regarding the Hand Of Fear

Your thread about a 1/6 Ecto-1 got me thinking again and though it's pretty specific to the 3rd Doctor a 1/6 Whomobile would be intresting to see and certainly qualifies as "big".

 

[morethanatimelord]

i find foam board very easy to work with, its mounting board i have problems with! .

foamboard or foamcore as its sometimes known is great stuff iv made many tardis consoles from foamcore and yes while its not easy i find it quite fun

thats the console i made from foamcore and cost very,very little to make really. the most expensive things where the colour plastic rods for the time rotor and the LEDs iv fitted to make certain panels light up and controls appear working

heres some tardis walls i made from foam core also