[MOC] Fourth Doctor Who - BrickHeadz

[cyberdyne systems]

"Have we been here before or are we yet to come?"

I welcome all Whovians for the fourth time - to meet the Fourth Doctor!

 

This one took really long time to make. In part due to Tom Baker's long tenure, and in part due to his equally long scarf. And also his hat and his curls too. 

 

One of the goals was to make this figurine more interesting and more... sophisticated, than the ones i've already seen in the net. So I made scarf to stick out only half a brick from the body and covered it from the sides to make it look as thin as possible, but not making it less stripey at the same time.

The hat was another not-as-simple-as-it-looks thing to construct. I copied the technique for the upper part, but greatly updated it to capture more angles and curves. By the way you may use it in your Indy Jones or Noir Detective BrickHeadz if you see fit. I am all for sharing good ideas. 

Surely, I couldn't leave the Doctor without his nice hair. So I made hatless version too. And I wouldn't be me if I just stuck a lot of round 1x1s and called it a day. No, I made really complicated structure, so the curles could flow more naturally.

Also I didn't want to make hair and hat the same colour, so my quest for the best curles was further hardened by the limits of available dark brown pieces.

I think, after this one's and Third's hair completion I may consider myself an expert of sorts in brickheading the curly hairstyles.

But of course it would be too easy to make to different versions, so I just had to make my life a little bit harder. Yes, I made hair and hat modules easiely interchangeable. Which required me to use a lot of half-round snot bricks and a lot of creative solutions to make it all stay together while being disconnectable. I think I succeeded in that too.

And I think it looks great in the line with Its predecessors - "grumpy, dandy and a clown".

And if you agree, you may be interested in instructions for this Doctor here:

https://reb.li/m/233902

 

 

 

[MAB]

That looks great. I really like the way you have inset the scarf and made the head/hat swapable. The only bit I don't like is the cravat / neck tie. I think this sticks out too much especially with the clip.