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As part of the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who, there are going to be eleven short novels from famous authors covering (as you might have guessed) all eleven Doctors.

The fifth book is Tip Of The Tongue and features the fifth Doctor and Nyssa.

In 1945, a strange new craze for Truth Tellers is sweeping the kids of small-town America. The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa soon arrive to investigate the phenomenon, only to discover that the actual truth behind the Truth Tellers is far more sinister than anyone could have imagined…

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Get Tip Of The Tongue at iTunes.

I did enjoy the both the last book, The Roots of Evil, and the one before, The Spear of Destiny. I was never a great fan of the fifth doctor, probably because I had enjoyed the Tom Baker years so much. I think that was about the time I stopped watching Doctor Who too. However I do intend to read this book and hopefully I might change my mind about the fifth Doctor.

Really enjoyed watching Name of the Doctor last night on the BBC.

So we didn’t get to know the name of the Doctor (which I am pleased about) but we did get to see all the original classic Doctors, in addition to David Tennant and Chris Eccleston.

I liked the explanation of the “impossible girl” and her interactions with the other incarnations of the Doctor.

From a technical perspective, I did think that the editing of classic Doctor Who needed a little bit more work. If you have watched Deep Space Nine’s Trouble with Tribbles episode, you know it is possible to combine old footage with new stuff. I wonder though if the problem was that the old Doctor Who footage was shot on video tape (rather than film) and that was reflected when watching this episode in HD. Still nice and clever to get everyone in there.

I won’t reveal much more as I suspect some people are yet to see it (via iPlayer and the like). It was great to see Madam Vastra, Jenny and Strax again.

Now looking forward to the 50th Anniversary episode in November…

In a recent game of Legends of the Old West I actually used all four Robot Mummies from my collection of Doctor Who models, as hired thugs.

They didn’t have weapons, but fought in hand to hand combat, by squeezing their opponents.

You can see how I painted them on the workbench feature.

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The final part of the second half of series seven is next Saturday.

Here is the prequel.

And the trailer.

Looking forward to it.

Back in the 1990s Harlequin Miniatures produced a licensed range of 28mm metal miniatures (these are now available from Black Tree Designs) and I bought back a few of the blisters, including the robot mummy.

The Robot Mummy in the TV series was quite an aged light brown colour, certainly not white.

After painting them I started on their bases. The Robot Mummys in the TV series were running around a Victorian Gothic mansion in 1911 rather than the surface of Mars; so I decided to give them grassy temperate bases rather than Martian sand.

Here are all four.

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