New Who Animation is 3D

Down the end of Sydney Street in Brighton, Dreamland, the second original animated Doctor Who story is deep in production, in, it transpires, 3D.

I thought the Cosgrove Hall/Firestep animated Invasion episodes and The Infinite Quest looked rather yummy, so I’m not convinced of the need for change…

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Of Mice and Models

It’s probably paranoia, but I thought I saw a mouse watching The Unit with me last night.

There have definitely been mice at Pen-Y-Bryn Quarry.  Giant mice, since Pen-Y-Bryn is a model by Michael Campbell.  It hadn’t occurred to me that their droppings might pass for those of 7mm scale sheep, but then Mr Campbell seems to have a fairly philosophical take on the rodents’ rampage:

The polystyrene forming the hills had been excavated (quarried?) and carried along the track all over the model, and small black droppings littered the hillside (in O gauge they might have passed for scale sheep droppings!). The little blighters had nibbled the rock-face (cork bark), and even tried some of the people and animals (tell-tale flashes of whitemetal!), plus other people, animals, and details were strewn about, flattened by the giant rodents.

I’d recommend running a Relco track cleaner; those things used always to give me a shock, with any luck they might fry a mouse.

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Bandwidth Slurped

Apologies if you visited the site this morning and found it not here.

A Yahoo Slurp spider ate all my bandwidth overnight.  Naughty spider (though in fairness, this was partly because of a malfunctioning plugin on one of my blogs).

A bit thank you to the nice folk at 5quidhost for being so quick to respond to emails.

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