These five 28mm metal androids are produced by “Black Tree Design", and can be purchased as Code DW518 Sharaz Jek Android from the company's "Doctor Who" miniatures range. Designed by Sharaz Jek to help take control of the spectrox refinery on Androzani Minor, these robots were eventually all destroyed by General Chellak and his federal troops in the March 1984 BBC Television story "The Caves Of Androzani".
The figures were first primed with two coats of "Citadel" Abaddon Black, before being generously dry-brushed with "Vallejo" Heavy Charcoal and washed with "Citadel" Nuln Oil. I then 'picked out' their automatic weapons using a combination of "Citadel" Ironbreaker and Nuln Oil, before applying a double layer of watered-down "Vallejo" White over their heads.
Finally, I washed their heads with some "Vallejo" Pale Grey and later dry-brushed them with (more) White so as to ensure their cyclopean eye was highlighted. At one point I had actually gone to the extent of painting a pilot piece's eye with a dab of "Citadel" Ironbreaker, but quickly felt it didn't look right, and went back to my original plan of the all-white head as they appeared in Robert Holmes' transmitted story.
Are you even a real doctor? Who did you say you were? Don't answer a question with a question!
Man those are freaky. I quite like both the cyclops and plain versions.
Nurse Barks
creepy but cool figure
ReplyDeleteThanks Martin :-)
DeleteNice work. The shading on the white came out well.
ReplyDeleteCheers StuartL. I certainly much prefer the shading to the stand-out eye.
DeleteThese were the droids you were looking for - nicely done Simon; you have been busy :)
ReplyDeleteBloody hell I remember these!!! Great work!
ReplyDeleteNice looking droids! (I actually quite like the Cyclops!)
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Nicely convincing work on black - difficult to acheive!
ReplyDeleteVery creepy robots. Well done.
ReplyDeleteVery cool Simon!
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