From SimonM: "Black Tree Design" Slyther (5 Points)

This 28mm metal miniature of a "creatures native to Skaro" is produced by “Black Tree Design", and can be bought as Code DW128 Slyther from the manufacturer's "Doctor Who" miniatures range. Regarded "as a sort of pet" by the Black Dalek commanding the Dalek operation at the Bedfordshire mining operation, the monster was operated by Nick Evans and appeared in Terry Nation's November 1964 BBC Television story "The Dalek Invasion of Earth".

Despite being described as "large, black creatures", whose "skins were so thick that they were immune to the stings of the Varga plant on the planet Skaro", I've always myself envisaged the slow moving, tentacled horrors as being green in colour, so inevitably primed my model with two layers of "Vallejo" Heavy Green before drenching the figure in "Citadel" Nuln Oil. I then dry-brushed it with (more) Heavy Green and 'picked out' its eyes using a combination of "Vallejo" Heavy Ochre and Strong Tone Quickshade by "The Army Painter".

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What what, Daleks in Bedfordshire? Must be a French plot. They're diabolical like that. Quick, send in UNIT to sort it out!  

The choice of green under black is ace. In the photos, you get the same sort of shimmer seen in another all black sci-fi villain, Armus on Vagra II.

You're clearly enjoying the Doctor Who menagerie! Five points for an excellent monster, sah! 

~HerrRobert