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So, my latest project nears completion....not Dalek related but still firmly in the Doctor Who Universe.You Will Be Like Us.
The Cybermen belong to the BBC.
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Nice redesign, I like the mix of modern and classic you've gone for.
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"another commenter who's got me thinking about how the Cybermen's weapons actually work"
-how do Dalek/Cybermen weapons work in terms of their effect on humans? Boring for some, perhaps, but I'd love to know!
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You already have Cybermen models though don't you?
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What's the point of making new ones and why do you need critique? You did a good job with the older models, why not use them as reference?
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Past work is never satisfying set against more recent stuff. You learn new tricks as you go along, so older models - or indeed pictures, stories, everything - comes across as clunky and crude in comparison to the up-to-the-minute ones. Little things like the mechanisms for hands and big things like proportions and body-shape: these are all things I've been steadily improving on with my humanoid models since I built my first Cyberman.
Plus, I have new ideas and I want to put them into visual form. I do use the older models as reference but only insofar as seeing what I liked and what I didn't and how to extract the first from the second and combine it with my new ideas.
As for asking for crtique - I want it for the same reasons anyone wants it. It's useful. It's always handy to have someone else's opinion - it lets you know if there's ways to improve that you missed, it can put those nagging suspicions that there's something wrong into words and, most importantly of all, it forces you to defend your design choices. If you can explain why you did something the way you did it, then it's likely that you'll be happy with the results.
And, ultimately, I want a design I'll be happy with.
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Well I'm ultimately convinced that you'll come up with something extremely awesome in the end. You have in the past, so you'll do it again. But when you do the finished models could you put in weapons and tools stats? You don't really talk about the weapons of all these guys much.
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Thanks for the faith!
Weapons and tool stats are...I find it hard to judge what they should be. I mean, yeah, I'll put up little bar charts, but they're randomly made up, rather than really thought out. I guess I don't find stats all that interesting, especially not in Doctor Who where weapons are usually only there to provide a threat/prove completely useless. I mean, how do you compare a Dalek gunstick with a Cyberman's death ray? They all have pretty much the same effect in the end (fire, kill, no blood).
Still, all that said, I've exchanged some interesting posts with another commenter who's got me thinking about how the Cybermen's weapons actually work, so that will probably end up going in the inevitable info sheets...
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Well just a little thing about what they are would be nice. Especially in things like the Mechanoids, Cybermen and Quarks.
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Then I shall see what I can do.
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Fascinating.
Elements of the 'The Tenth Planet' Cybermen and the Troughton Era Cybermen.
They're rather thin though, what happens to people who can't wear skinny jeans? They're rejected by the Cybermen and get to become Daleks?
Great work.
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Thanks! The thinness comes from a couple of sources: firstly, from the Cybermen in the Doctor Who Magazine comic 'The Flood', which features some very sleek, iPod generation Cybermen, and less directly from the Cybermen in 'The Wheel in Space', which had the most skin-tight Cyber-costumes of any of the TV designs.
I may adjust them to make them slightly wider but, on the whole, I think gauntness suits them.
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